Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 14/04/2005 08:22, Karl Randolph wrote:

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> I prefer Pshat to Drash. This is Drash based on the insistance that the term must refer to an object, in particular a female of the human 
> persuasion. But a feminine noun can also indicate that it refers to an abstract concept, such as in this case “the unknown”.
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If you prefer the more literal Pshat to speculative Drash, why do you 
reject an obvious sense based on a well established meaning of the word 
(and a well established translation and interpretation tradition) in 
favour of a speculative completely new sense of the word?

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