Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

James:

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:58 PM, James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Due to recent discussions I've been rereading a lot of the texts in
> Genesis. One phrase that leapt out at me was CGN YHWH, C)RZ MZRIM at
> Genesis 13:10.
>

Sorry, you got the transliteration off slightly, should have been KGN YHWH
K)RC MCRYM.

>
> Now the way this seems to read to me, at first sight, is as a
> parallel. i.e. like the garden of YHWH and the land of Egypt are
> parallel in:
>
> a) being the same place of the same natural beauty as the Jordan
> b) just the sense of natural beauty
>
> How do other people read this?
>
> James Christian
>

I read it as option B as indicated by the prefixed K-.

It is a parallel, but the prefixed K- indicates that it is similar to, but
not the same place as, the area around Sodom.

Karl W. Randolph.