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  • From: "Steve Miller" <smille10 AT sbcglobal.net>
  • To: "'Paul Zellmer'" <pzellmer AT sc.rr.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] crackpot idea psalm 22
  • Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:08:43 -0500

Paul,
The word appears in 2 separate DSS fragments. One says כארו and the other כר
with the fragment ending after the resh.

Additionally, I don't think "like a lion my hands and my feet" makes sense.

Sincerely,
-Steve Miller
Detroit
www.voiceInWilderness.info
No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.
His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life. -
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Zellmer
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 7:37 PM
> To: 'Antonio Garcia'
> Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org; greifer AT hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] crackpot idea psalm 22
>
> Psalm 22 is seen by the Christians on this list as being a prophetic
description of
> the crucifixion of Jesus. It’s interesting (at least to me) that the term
that Kenneth
> Greifer proposed a translation of “dug” and that others (including the
Christians)
> translate as “are pierced” is considered as marginal in the BHS, and only
found in a
> very few manuscripts. I really don’t have any good idea of the meaning of
the idiom
> כארי ידי ורגלי (as the lion [are] my hands and my feet), which is the
generally
> accepted text. But I would be very surprised if it has the meaning of
digging. The
> marginal texts (כרו or כארו) seems to come from כור, which appears to
imply digging
> a hole using a sharp implement, and not כרה, which is a more general term.
> The LXX interpretation supports this distinction, again using a word which
means
> to dig a hole with a sharp instrument (as opposed to dig in general).
> So I would agree with Kenneth’s own initial evaluation, “I don’t think it
is right….”
>
>
>
> Paul Zellmer






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