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- From: B Rocine <596547 AT ican.net>
- To: b-hebrew AT virginia.edu
- Subject: Re: Ba(al se(ar in 2 Ki 1:8
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 19:04:26 -0400
mail the UNC address for days without success, so being the computer geek
that I am I thought, heh, what if I try the old address...
>Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 14:26:25
>To: Paul Kissling <pjk AT voyager.net>
>From: B Rocine <596547 AT ican.net>
>Subject: Re: Ba(al se(ar in 2 Ki 1:8
>Cc: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
>
>Dear Paul, et al,
>
>Thanks for your comments! Would you also find this a possibility: Might
the term _Ba(al se(ar_ be referring Elijah as the Ba(al of the _xebel
nabi)im_? This would be viewing _se(ar_ as a figure, specifically a
metonym, for the band of hairy-garmented prophets.
>
>How do you think the answer, that Elijah was a hairy man, fits as an answer
to Ahaziah's question, "What was the manner(_mi$Pat_) of the man?"
>
>Shalom,
>Bryan
>
>
>At 02:58 PM 8/18/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>Bryan,
>>
>>Ba'al se'ar does not necessarily refer to clothing. See Hobbs and my
>>Reliable
>>Characters in the Primary History. JSOTSup 1996. I argue that Elijah is a
"lord of
>>hair" or "hairy man" in contrast to Elisha who is mocked for being bald. I
suspect
>>that the reference is forward to the other corresponding section of a
rather tight
>>chiasm in chapters 1 and 2 of II Kings.
>>
>>Paul Kissling
>>
>
B. M. Rocine
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Church of the Living Word
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