Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Quoting K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>:

> James:
>
> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 7:10 PM, James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > Yeah,
> >
> > it's been making me wonder, though. Whether this could be construed in any
> > way as a hint of the author's perceived location of the Garden of Eden.
>
> No, not when he likens it to Egypt as well.

I suppose it would be more clear if the author had written KGN YHWH  
WKGN MCRYM.

Do you know of any other passages which follow a similar linguistic  
structure (i.e. using K... twice but without the W conjunction) that  
are demonstrably parallel in a limited way yet distinctly physically  
different as entities geographical or otherwise?


> > Also, something else it made me think about. It makes the author come
> > across as somebody familiar with Egypt as a well watered pasture land.
>
> More than a pasture land. Abraham had just been there, at least to the
> northern, more fruitful area, and saw what it was like.

Sure.

James Christian



> > James Christian
> >
> > Karl W. Randolph.
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