Biblical Hebrew Forum

["rpunkboy AT netzero.com" <rpunkboy AT netzero.com>]

I would agree with you that both parties are condemned by these verses; this 
is not the problem that I am seeking to address. Rather, I am concerned with 
whom the verse is addressing, the passive or active partner? Jerome Walsh's 
remarks were published in 2001, i.e. the syntax with its use the cognate 
object would point towards the passive partner being the subject, not the 
active as it is traditionally understood. I was wondering if his analysis 
would hold up with everyone here? Of course, Rabbi Akiba's niphal punctuation 
would work with the first instance of mishkav, "do not be laid." But I'm not 
sure that it would in the second instance of mishkav isha, "the lyings of a 
woman." 

Robby Martin
rpunkboy AT netzero.net

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