Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 12/09/2005 00:58, Bill Rea wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Peter Kirk wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Bill, I would dispute your hypothesis that the biblical authors
> > deliberately wrote ambiguously, except perhaps in a few rather special
> > places.
> >    
>
> If you don't like ambiguity, then let's confine ourselves to
> double meaning like the type in Gen 16:2. How does Karl's theory
> handle these?
>  

Well, if the point in Genesis 16:2 etc is that there is an ambiguity 
between two different lexical items, Karl will have no problem there, 
although it is of course a problem for translation. But I don't quite 
see the issue with this verse. Are you suggesting a second sense of the 
verb BNH related to BEN "son"?

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