Biblical Hebrew Forum

[TedBro AT aol.com]

Hi, Again:
 
Dave makes an important point... all the more so when trying to extract  
beliefs from word choices by comparison with texts from  distant contexts 
separated from our text by time and geography.
 
Consider our use of terms like "charming" and "spellbound". Do they say  
anything about our beliefs on witchcraft? 
 
Cheers,
Ted Brownstein
 
 
In a message dated 3/1/2010 2:56:21 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
dwashbur AT nyx.net writes:



On 1 Mar 2010 at 21:04, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:

> It  is important not to make prior assumptions about what the
> Biblical  writer
> would do.  I think it is best to try to read this poem and  let it
> speak for itself,
> taking into consideration the various  allusions that it makes and
> suggestions
> it evokes.

But  immediate context, and particularly the biblical materials and the 
specific  book itself,  
would seem much more important for trying to suss out  what the writer 
meant.  It seems to 
me that some tend to bypass that  and jump straight to the wider Canaanite 
milieu, at the 
expense of the  immediate written context.

Dave  Washburn