Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

Harold,

I think it is East Africa because Job 28:5 "As for the earth, out of  
it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire" contains  
what appears to be a reference to volcanic activity. The flora and  
fauna also betoken an African background. I think that  HA-QODRIYM  
MINI QARAX is "wreathed [crowned] by ice".

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Jun 19, 2007, at 6:15 PM, Harold Holmyard wrote:

> Dear Isaac,
> > I looked it up and Indeed Job 16:6 is translated as "They   are dark
> > because of ice; snow is piled up over them".   Now that yit’allem is
> > behind us we can start thinking what   HA-QODRIYM MINI QARAX means. I
> > don't think it is "They   are dark   because of ice". I fail to see
> > how HA-QODRIYM can mean "They   are dark" and how something can be
> > dark because of ice. I think that reference here is not to water but
> > to the snow capped mountains of East Africa being the source of melt
> > ice water springs.
>
> The context is not East Africa but areas east of Israel where Job  
> lived.
> The context is the disappearing rivers that flow for part of the year
> and dry up in other parts, as in Israel (wadis). The verse  
> continues the
> reasoning of the previous verse. Ice could darken the water as solid
> masses that cast shadows and block light.
> > While at it, I also looked up Genesis 2:17 which they translate "but
> > you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for
> > when   you eat from it you will surely die". I wish they would leave
> > out this superfluous and outright annoying word "surely".
>
> We've dealt with this topic already.
>
> Yours,
> Harold Holmyard
>
>
>
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