Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

James:

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 2:42 AM, James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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?
> James Christian
>
> Over the years I’ve noticed verses where I expected to find a W- prefix
dividing between words and phrases, but didn’t. I never cataloged them, so
can’t off the top of my head lead you to any, nor do I remember if any
include a K- prefix in each phrase.

This is the type of thing that would be hard to track down.

Karl W. Randolph.