Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

Dear Pere,

God here is imagined as a warrior, using his arm as a weapon. "Save" here
basically means "defeats his enemies".

Yigal Levin

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To: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>; <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Which subject?


> In Is 63:5 we find "WTW$( LY ZRO(Y", and my arm saved me.
>
> I ask:
>
> 1. Who is speaking here? God? Isaiah? Someone else? Who exactly?
> 2. Who is the "owner" of the "arm"? Whose the arm is?
> 3. Verb Y$).... does it always introduce its object (the person or thing
> saved) by (or with or through)preposition [l]?
>
> [4. Only if God speaks: Does it make sense that God is "saved" (even by 
> his
> own arm)?]
>
> Best regards!
>
> Pere Porta
> Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain)
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