Biblical Hebrew Forum

["George F. Somsel" <gfsomsel AT juno.com>]

On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 09:04:41 -0500 "Eduard C Hanganu"
<eddhanganu AT hotmail.com> writes:
> 
> Dear Fred:
> 
> Daniel 8:11 does not speak about DAILY SACRIFICES. It speaks about 
> TAMID. 
> The expression is (forgive my lack of familiarity with the 
> tranliteration 
> conventions of the forum): "VA MIMENU TAMID" which I would translate 
> 
> literally "AND FROM HIM WAS TAKEN AWAY/SEPARATED TAMID." A search  
> on the 
> word TAMID ( I use BibleWorks for my Hebrew OT and Greek NT 
> research) shows 
> that the word TAMID refers to ALL ASPECTS OF THE SANCTUARY SERVICE. 
> Here is 
> my selection of the most pertinent passage where TAMID is used in 
> the OT:
> 
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> 
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I would suggest that since TAMID seems to contain the idea of continuity,
and that here it refers to the DAILY sacrifice which is then qualified as
"evening-morning" sacrifices indicating two for each day.  2,300
sacrifices would thus reduce to 1,150 days or ~ 3 yrs if you use a 12 mo.
30 day calendar with 1 intercalary month ((1150-30)/30 = 3.111).

george
gfsomsel