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  • From: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Lisbeth S. Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] verb forms - Isaiah 56:6-7 was dying you shall die
  • Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:15:31 -0700

On 4/11/07, Lisbeth S. Fried <lizfried AT umich.edu> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
Dear Peter,
...

The whole point of the passage in Isaiah 56 is to look forward to the time
when God's house would be called the house of prayer of all peoples. At the
time when the text was written the temple had been destroyed by Babylon and
newly rebuilt. The writer of Isaiah 56 is hoping for a more benign world
than the world which existed then, and exists today.

Best regards,
Liz

Here you have used your theological beliefs to inform how your should
read the Hebrew.

According to the historical references embedded in Tanakh, these words
were written roughly a century before the destruction of Solomon's
temple and, as I read it based on the verses that Harold Holmyard
quoted, this was a present to the time of Isaiah, a continuous
present, not only a future event: the temple is a house of prayers for
all peoples (irrespective of whether or not they took advantage of
that opportunity).

Karl W. Randolph.




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