Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk>]

Yeah. That was the way I was tending to lean as well. BTW, sorry about  
the transliteration. I can never find that page that tells us how  
we're supposed to do it. It would be nice if we could just cut and  
paste the Hebrew.

Anyway, what do you make of KGN YHWH? My first instinct tells me this  
is the Garden of Eden if not referring to Egypt.

James Christian


Quoting 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.
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