Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Jim:

I asked for specific linguistic evidence, and instead you serve up religion.
That dawg don’t hunt.

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:01 PM, <JimStinehart AT aol.com> wrote:

>  Karl:
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> 1.  You wrote:  “What you need to do is to show evidence from within Hebrew 
> that Y(R meant other than forest in other Biblical passages.”
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> O.K., I will follow your good advice.  Please consider the word Y(R at 
> Isaiah 21: 13.
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> KJV stays with “forest”, as do the old translations of Darby and Young’s 
> Literal.  But then the verse does not make sense:
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> “The burden upon Arabia.  In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge.”
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> There’s no forest in Arabia!
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Again your whole argument is based on the discredited belief that the
present is the key to the past. This is a religious belief that many of us
think is not worth the paper it is written on. You show your adherence to
that belief by your “the verse does not make sense:” because “There’s no
forest in Arabia!”

Yet in that denial, you referenced information that at one time Saudi Arabia
was forested, which brings up the question, when did those forests dry up?
Isaiah indicates that at least some of it was still in existence when he
lived, ca. 700 BC.

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> You have yet to provide any credible evidence that Y(R meant anything other
than “forest”.

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> 2.  As to Biblical analysis, consider that Jacob cannot avoid meeting Esau 
> when Jacob prepares to enter Canaan from northern Gilead [east of Shechem].
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Wrong again. He sent for Esau as a prophylactic, to prevent later conflict.
Apparently it worked, as in Genesis we hear nothing about conflict with Esau
afterwards.


> Jim Stinehart
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> Evanston, Illinois
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> Karl W. Randolph.