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  • From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Re: Compound Words in Hebrew
  • Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 10:54:39 -0500

Dear Lira,

As far as I know, tamid is used in the Bible not only for the burnt
offerings, but for all the continual rituals of the sanctuary. It refers,
for instance, to the "continual burnt-offering" (Ex. 29:42) and to the
"perpetual incense" (Ex. 30:8). However, it also refers to something which
was not renewed every morning and evening, and not even daily, but weekly,
as is the case of the "continual bread" (Num. 4:7). That's why I can't see
tamid and ereb-boqer as synonymous.
In the case of the regular burnt-offering, it is in fact often referred to
as the burnt offering of the morning and the evening. But, in this case, the
order is always morning-evening and not evening-morning.

HH: I agree with Eduard that tamid in Dan 8:13 implies that daily burnt offering. I think most commentaries would agree with him, too. Accepting what you say about the regular burnt-offering elsewhere being referred to in terms of morning first and then evening, I don't think that must ruin Eduard's hypothesis, because the angel may be making a wordplay between the tamid in verse 13 and the duration of the temple's desecration in verse 14. Yes "evening morning" suggests a day, and so the passage of time, but it also suggests the two times daily when the tamid was offered. So the problem still remains. Was it 2,300 evenings and mornings, or 2,300 days? Others have noted that the historical fulfillment, taking the natural interpretation of this passage as speaking of temple desecration by Antiochus Epiphanes, corresponds to a period more like 1,500 days. So this favors the interpretation that the angel was making a wordplay. Evening and morning will pass enough times that 2,300 offerings of the tamid will be missed.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard





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