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- From: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
- To: "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Re: Bribes, Gifts, and Tribute
- Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 09:58:51 +0200
> > > Isa 45:13 seems to be a reference to reward, a gift for doing
something
> > > ethically good and legal, in this case freeing captives. I read it as
the
> > > righteous free captives for goodness alone, without expectation of
reward.
> > > However it could be read that the righteous free captives without
> > expecting ransoms, which the modern reader would have a negative
association with. It depends if the righteous is the captor, or liberates
the captives from a
> > 3rd party captor.
> > >
Since Isaiah 45:13 is about Cyrus, who is expected to "build my city and
free my exiles, not for a price and not for $oxad", but simply because he is
rightous - "the Lord's annointed". So $oxad is what a rightous king would
NOT take - meaning that an evil one would.
Yigal
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[b-hebrew] Bribes, Gifts, and Tribute,
David Kimbrough (CLWA), 05/17/2004
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[b-hebrew] Re: Bribes, Gifts, and Tribute,
Yigal Levin, 05/18/2004
- Re: [b-hebrew] Re: Bribes, Gifts, and Tribute, Yigal Levin, 05/18/2004
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Re: [b-hebrew] Bribes, Gifts, and Tribute,
Chemorion, 05/18/2004
- Re: [b-hebrew] Bribes, Gifts, and Tribute, Yigal Levin, 05/18/2004
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Re: [b-hebrew] Bribes, Gifts, and Tribute,
Karl Randolph, 05/17/2004
- Re: [b-hebrew] Bribes, Gifts, and Tribute, Peter Kirk, 05/18/2004
- Re: Re: [b-hebrew] Bribes, Gifts, and Tribute, david.kimbrough, 05/17/2004
- RE: [b-hebrew] Bribes, Gifts, and Tribute, Karl Randolph, 05/18/2004
- Re: Re: [b-hebrew] Bribes, Gifts, and Tribute, Karl Randolph, 05/18/2004
- Re: [b-hebrew] Bribes, Gifts, and Tribute, Karl Randolph, 05/18/2004
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[b-hebrew] Re: Bribes, Gifts, and Tribute,
Yigal Levin, 05/18/2004
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