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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: Karl Randolph <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • Cc: Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] "virgin" vs. "young woman"in Isaiah 7:14
  • Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 23:49:59 +0500

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”.


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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