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Re: [b-hebrew] Ecc 9:14

From: Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>
To: "Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon AT gmail.com>
Cc: Biblical Hebrew list <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ecc 9:14
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:49:30 +0100

Hi, b-hebrew listers.

Regarding this verse

There was a small city with few men in it and a great king came to it,
surrounded it, and constructed large siegeworks against it.

עיר קטנה ואנשים בה מעט ובא אליה מלך גדוך וסבב אתה ובנה עליה מצודים גדלים
I'm wondering whether it is logical that one builds up large -LARGE-
siegeworks agains a small -SMALL- city.

Can this be a clear sign that the scene has been neither real nor historical
but imagined by the author-writer to show, as a whole, that men very often
are not grateful?

Pere Porta
(Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)

Re: [b-hebrew] Ecc 9:14, Pere Porta, 10/28/2009
- Re: [b-hebrew] Ecc 9:14, K Randolph, 10/28/2009