Biblical Hebrew Forum

["A. Philip Brown II" <philipbrown AT apbrown2.net>]

Shalom B-Haverim,

 

I'm uncertain how to read HALOT's (KB3) entry for (ELYOWN, and would like
some others' "read."

 

Under section B, it reads

"B. in the OT (EL' is no longer a special deity…, but a divine epithet,
which occurs either by itself (in parallelism) or as an attribute…; )EL (EL'
Gn 14:18-20, YHWH )EL (EL' 22, (YHWH missing in Sept. Pesh., also GnAp 2221,
see Fitzmyer GenAp2 178f); OSArb. Àl tÁly “El the Most High” (Oldenburg ZAW
82 (1970):190), cf. Schatz 207ff, Ps 7835; (ELYOWN meaning: God Nu 24:16
(parallel with lae), Dt 3:28 2S 22:14/Ps 18:14 (parallel with YHWH), …"

 

The element that is problematic to me is “meaning: God.”  

 

I can hardly believe they mean "meaning." Surely they mean "referent"?  The
first line of this section seems to support the conclusion that they actual
mean that God is the referent for (ELYOWN in the following references;
whereas the term itself is an epithet or attribute meaning Highest or Most
High.

 

How do others read this entry?

 

Thanks.

Philip Brown 

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