Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 21:17:49 -0400 George F Somsel <gfsomsel AT juno.com>
writes:
>
> Oh, but I didn't say that one was and the other was not predictive
> prophecy.  I will accept both as predictive prophecy.  I said that 
> the
> mention of Josiah was an insertion into the prophecy.  Prophecy does 
> not
> name specific names -- that is its nature.  A prophet might say that 
> the
> king of Judah would slaughter (BTW:  I hope that you don't take the 
> use
> of the word ZBX as indicating human sacrifice) the priests of 
> Jeroboam's
> cultic site.  That the name of Josiah is included can only be 
> ascribed to
> a later insertion.  One might accept Immanuel in Is 7.14 as being
> something the prophet himself had control over if "the young woman" 
> were
> his wife or that he had spoken with this "young woman" who had told 
> him
> that should it be a male she would thus name him or perhaps other
> speculative reasons regarding the inclusion of a name here (as to 
> its
> being a male, he had a better than 50% chance of being right), but 
> this
> is all speculative and I choose to not speculate.
> 
> george
> gfsomsel
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Hmm.  Perhaps I should have said a decendent of "B"YT_DfWiD" rather than
"king of Judah.  Interesting in light of the Tel Dan inscription.

george
gfsomsel
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