To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Puns.
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 18:26:11 -0500
I just ran across one in Isaiah 56:5. The eunuchs are given a name and a
monument (yad). Of course, we all know the name will not be cut off, wink
wink, but in the next chapter we find out that yad also has a double
meaning.
57:8 says, "And you have made a bargain for yourself with them, you have
loved their bed, you have gazed on their nakedness (i.e. phallus/yad)."
Blame it on seminary, really. I never saw the double entendres before.
-Tyler
--
"In my family we didn't believe in God,
so cleanliness got top billing."
-Andrew Tobias
(a.k.a. The Best Little Boy in the World)