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  • From: "David Kummerow" <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Re: Almah vs. Bethulah in Isaiah 7
  • Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 10:33:39 +1000



Karl,

I simply provided the quotation so as to provide an indication of the position that I, personally, favour. It may sound "wierd" straight out of the blue. However, have a read of the article, commentary, and article.

I find Webb's position convincing as it is an argument built on a study of formal and thematic textual indicators from the book as a whole. Besides, Barry Webb is no "wierdo".

David Kummerow.

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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