Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

This explanation sounds sort of wierd. So wierd, that that's all I can say on 
it.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Kummerow" <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>

> 
> 
> For me, one of the more convincing potential positions regarding 
> the referent of the 'almah is put forward in:
> 
> Rice, Gene. "A Neglected Interpretation of the Immanuel Prophecy." 
> ZAW 90 (1978): 220-227.
> 
> This is taken up in the popular commentary of Barry Webb and also 
> in his essay, "Zion in Transformation: A Literary Approach to 
> Isaiah," in _The Bible in Three Dimensions: Essays in Celebration 
> of Forty Years of Biblical Studies in the University of Sheffield_ 
> (ed. D.J.A. Clines et al; JSOTSS 87; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1990), 
> 82.
> 
> To quote Webb (p.82): "Given the situation (Jerusalem beset by 
> foes, 7.1) and the fact that Isaiah is pointedly told to take his 
> son Shear-jashub ('a remnant shall return') as he goes to confront 
> the faithless Ahaz (7.2), there can be little doubt that 7.14 
> refers metaphorically to the emergance of a faithful remnant. The 
> young woman who is about to give birth is Zion. Her son, 
> symbolically called Immanuel, is the small community of believers 
> who gather around the prophet, his 'disciples' or 'children' 
> (8.16-18). They are the remnant in the immediate sense anticipated 
> by the name Shear-jashub. They are the ones who have returned in 
> repentance to the Lord."
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David Kummerow.
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