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["Doug Belot" <dbelot AT bigpond.net.au>]

I wonder please  could you give me a explanation on the 430 year period that 
Israel spent in Egypt , it seems that only two or three generations were born 
in Egypt , even tho the Israelites were considered proplific breeders and 
went from 70 to 600000 , 

Examples are Levi and son Kohath go into captivity ,  Amran is born to Kohath 
 and then  Moses is born to Amram there Num 3:17, and Moses leads Israel out 
, after 430 years . 

Levi much the same , Levi has Perez , Perez has Hezron , Num 1:7,  then come 
captivity , Hezron has Ram in Egypt , Ram has Amminadab  , Amminadab has 
Nahson , who leads Judah out , so only Ram and Amminadab and Nasho , three 
generations are born in 430 years , is this meant to tell us that a 
generation is 100 years or is there another reason why semingly birth rate 
has declined , Gen 11:11-25  saw births at approx 30 years , why did they 
lengthen to 100 approx in capivity

doug belot
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From: Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] d of z
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Dear Doug,

I'm not sure what you mean by "corporate" here, but "D. of Z." is obviously
a poetic term, used by prophets from the 8th century BCE onwards. Isaiah, of
course, did not copy from Kings since he lived before Kings was written.
Either the author of Kings chose to copy parts of Isaiah, or a late redactor
of the Book of Isaiah chose to copy these passages from Kings.

I'm not sure what you mean by Is 5:1-7 having "a melody in its prose similar
to Songs of Solomon". Some of the imagery is similar, but the two are
actually quite different.

Yigal


----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Belot" <dbelot AT bigpond.net.au>
To: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 11:56 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] d of z


> Yigal it seems as tho the term d of z only comes into the Scriptures after
> 2nd kgs 19:21 ,it does to me suggest a "youger generation" of Israelites ,
> hence maybe the using terminolgy of "mother" and children , and d of z , I
> am believing that here the term "Zion" is referring to corporate Israel ,
> as
> say in Is 49:14.and her daughters are the coming generations , which would
> make present day Jews corporate the "daughters of Zion" , it is used in
> the
> prophecies many many times .
>
> Do you have any ideas on why Isaiah put 2nd kings 18:13-2nd kgs 19 as
> chapters 36-37 in Isaiah , is there a litteral and non literal message
> here
> .
>
> Plus , and this is a bit of a reach , but Is 5:1-7 seems to have a melody
> in
> its prose similar to Songs of Solomon , and is talking about "my Well
> beloved" , similar to the Songs plea , say 2;16.
>
> Ok thanks Yigal
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
> To: "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 6:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] d of z
>
>
>> Hello again Doug,
>>
>> I think that the conventional reading of "daughter of Zion" is that it
>> always refers to either the city of Jerusalem, or to the
>> land/people/kingdom
>> of Judah as a whole. "Zion", as I'm sure you know, is a name for the hill
>> on
>> which Jerusalem was built, the hill that we also call "Moriah" or "The
>> Temple Mount" (the use of "Zion" specifically for the western hill of the
>> Old City that is common now is a Second Temple Period misidentification).
>> I can't think off-hand of any case in which "daughter of Zion" refers to
>> "Israel" as a whole.
>>
>> Yigal Levin
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Doug Belot" <dbelot AT bigpond.net.au>
>> To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
>> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 2:39 AM
>> Subject: [b-hebrew] d of z
>>
>>
>>> Hi to all Hebrew scholars ,may I ask this question...
>>>
>>> In 2nd Kgs 19:21 we see a reply from the LORD , to Sennacherib this way
>>>
>>> 2nd Kgs 19:21  The daughter of Zion has despised you , the daughter of
>>> Jerusalem has shaken her head at you behind your back.
>>>
>>> This verse is repeated in Is 37:22 , also we find the term "daughter of
>>> Zion" used in many places , most obvious is Is 1:8 , Is 52:2 and Is
>>> 62:11
>>> would I be out of ordert o consider that this "daughter" is a corporate
>>> term for Israel / Judah , after the Rehoboam/Jeroboam split .
>>>
>>> And could I thus be able to say that all such terminology was meant to
>>> be
>>> taken as corporate Israel , or is it splitting Jerusalem and Israel .
>>>
>>> And as the term comes direct from the Lord could I thus think that this
>>> is
>>> a term that he now regards Israel as, the daughter of Zion/Jerusalem
>>>
>>> Doug Belot
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