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  • From: "UUC" <unikom AT paco.net>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Isaiah 53: oppression?
  • Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 09:54:18 +0300

can't read this

Sincerely,

Vadim Cherny


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On Tue, 25 May 2004 17:22:41 +0300 "UUC" <unikom AT paco.net> writes:
> Dear Harold,
>
>
>
> How about otzer?
>
>
>
> The translation of confinement (otzer, vs8) as oppression is
> unwarranted. The word is also translated thus in Psalm 107:39, which
> is clearly wrong in relation to the princes mentioned there. Rulers
> can be pressed (surrounded and wander in wastes) but not oppressed.
> In the only other instance, Proverbs 30:16, the same word refers to
> barren [womb], also a closed place, confinement. Because of (from)
> oppression he was taken is also meaningless, unless we assume he was
> taken from this world of oppression to the heavenly kingdom; but
> Isaiah does not profess resurrection. In the Tanach, taken [by God]
> is used only with Enoch and Elijah, and seems too high-flown
> considering the writer's attitude toward his subject. Further, this
> reading is not congruent with his soul was exposed to death.
>
> The translation of confinement as perversion or protection is
> unwarranted.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Vadim Cherny
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