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  • From: "Donald R. Vance, Ph.D." <donaldrvance AT mac.com>
  • To: James Christian <jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] 1 Kings 20:14 Who are the young men, princes of the districts?
  • Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 18:36:33 -0500

Say what you will about Jim's theories, to say this is clearly a construct is simply not true. Moran long ago suggested that it is a construct with enclitic -ma. But this does not happen. Nothing can interrupt a construct chain. In fact HALOT suggests an emendation to a "clear" construct. So, the condescending tone is uncalled for in this post.


Donald R. Vance, Ph.D.
Professor of Biblical Languages and Literature
Oral Roberts University
dvance AT oru.edu
donaldrvance AT mac.com


On May 3, 2010, at 1:32 PM, James Christian wrote:

<snip>
presenting your foundationless theories. The expression בְּהַרְרָם שֵׂעִיר
is quite clearly a construct relationship. Perhaps the most simple and
common grammatical construction in Hebrew that if you knew Hebrew you should
have immediately recognized. The translation would be something like
mountains of Seir or hills of Seir if you really prefer hills as your
translation. In any case, this is a quite clear reference to the mountain
range of Edom very much South of the dead sea.

<snip>
James Christian






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