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[Uzi Silber <uzisilber AT gmail.com>]

Andronic

Elohim is a plural, so 'echad me eemanu', would make sense. much like
the earlier passgae that says that man would be made 'be tzalmeynu'

Uzi Silber


On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Andronic Khandjani
<andronicusmy AT gmail.com> wrote:
> We usually renders Genesis 3:22 by "" Behold, the man is become as one of
> us, to know good and evil", a targum translates mimenou by "by himself" and
> the mim and the lam may suggest some motion. Mim may suggest subtraction and
> lam adhesion.  Eva is not even mentioned but only Adam.
>
> Is it possible that k'ehad refer to the unity of Genesis 2.24, if so Adam
> refers here to the humanity and we may render the verse like this:
> "The human became as one by their own initiative through the knowledge of
> good and evil"?
> .
> Firouz Khandjani
>
>
> Pleven, Bulgaria
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