To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: ephod
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:25:13 -0700
> the general understanding of the *ephod* is that the word was used both of
> the *tunic* which covered the idol and the whole idol itself. has this been
> overturned by exceedingly recent scholarship?
>
I thought in Exodus and elsewhere it was a garment that the priest
wore, not something to do with an idol.
Dave Washburn http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with
it.
-Emerson