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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: bill.rea AT canterbury.ac.nz
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ambiguities, doubling meanings and puns
  • Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 01:44:40 +0100

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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Peter Kirk
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