Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Nir cohen - Prof. Mat." <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>]

karl,

i agree with every word. my main point was that YO$EV OHALIM, I$ SADEH, 
perhaps even I$ TAM are neutral terms 
which cannot be used to fantasy on the moral character of the figures 
involved.

i do not deny the need of everybody involved to complete the scanty pieces in 
the text into a full 
coherent picture of a live person and a patriarch; but in my opinion the end 
result should be sold 
as a painting, not as a photo.

http://www.bible-art.info/Rebecca.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Esther_%28painting%29

http://www.google.com.br/imgres?imgurl=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pnI35YjeioQ/Sa1bGo6UJbI
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best
nir cohen

i hope "moses" will come through in spite of the long address.

----On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:23:57 -0700, K Randolph wrote
> Nir:
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br> 
> wrote:

> but YO$EV still means to sit. maybe it means to sit in the tent
> instead of going out (the "pshat"), maybe it means to sit in the
> community/larger family ("drash").
 > The meaning of the verb is to settle down, both in the sense of sitting 
 > down as you mention above, but also in the 
sense of settling down in making a dwelling, settlement. So the concept 
related here is of Jacob settling (i.e. dwelling) in tents.
> Karl W. Randolph.