Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uzi Silber <uzisilber AT gmail.com>]

eloha singular - elohim plural.
why can elohim be a very early semitic conception of god as a
multifaceted entity or even a bundling of canaanite deities? referring
to them in plural seems to me a clue to such an origin.  otherwise it
would have been be 'tzalmo' and 'kamoni', no?

Uzi Silber

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Andronic Khandjani
<andronicusmy AT gmail.com> wrote:
> Uzi,
> Thanks.
> How you will render Elohim? Why the governing verb is singular?
>
> I think that we must consider Elohim as singular even HE speaks to Angels. I
> would maintain the monotheism of the author.
> Firouz Khandjani
> 2011/10/28 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
>> >
>> >
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