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Re: [b-hebrew] NXM

From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] NXM
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:17:19 -0400

Moreover, the NXM of Job 42:6, where he speaks of his imminent coming to rest upon a bed of dust and ashes in his grave, is the same NXM as the WA-YI-NAXAMU of Ezekiel 31:16-17
מִקּוֹל מַפַּלְתּוֹ הִרְעַשְׁתִּי גוֹיִם בְּהוֹרִדִי אֹתוֹ שְׁאוֹלָה אֶת-יוֹרְדֵי בוֹר וַיִּנָּחֲמוּ בְּאֶרֶץ תַּחְתִּית כָּל-עֲצֵי- עֵדֶן מִבְחַר וְטוֹב-לְבָנוֹן כָּל- שֹׁתֵי מָיִם גַּם-הֵם אִתּוֹ יָרְדוּ שְׁאוֹלָה אֶל-חַלְלֵי-חָרֶב
and this NXM is also but a milder NXT, as in Job 17:16
בַּדֵּי שְׁאֹל תֵּרַדְנָה אִם-יַחַד עַל-עָפָר נָחַת
"Will they descend with me into the nether world? Shall we go down together into the dust" [NAB], and in Job 21:13
וּבְרֶגַע שְׁאוֹל יֵחָתּוּ
"and tranquilly [swiftly?] go down to the nether world." [NAB]

Isaac Fried, Boston University

[b-hebrew] NXM, David Kummerow, 04/12/2008
- Re: [b-hebrew] NXM, Isaac Fried, 04/13/2008
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- [b-hebrew] NXM, John B. Senterfitt, 04/14/2008