On 19/7/02 2:46 pm, Rolf Furuli at furuli AT online.no wrote:
On this background I would take your h'lhym in the sense "The God", who has a
completely different position compared with other "gods". So I would translate
is as "The true God". The word 'lhym without article refers in most instances
to "The true God" as well (keep in mind the difference between "meaning" and
"reference"), but when the article is used, it is stressed that he is "The
true God".
This seems to me to be unlikely--I doubt such a broad generalisation can be
made for the entire Hebrew Bible. For example, it suggests that Psalms
rarely seeks to stress "the true God" but Qohelet frequently wishes to do so
(based on the statistics Ian provided). This certainly seems
counter-intuitive to me!
Martin Shields,
University of Sydney.
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