To: "b-hebrew Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ecclesiastes 3:11
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:05:58 +0000
On Nov 16, 2007 12:40 PM, Martin Shields wrote:
> No, as I think I've said before, I can find no examples which include
> אשר. Indeed, I do think it should be read as "without which people
> cannot find..." as I've argued previously. Of course, it is not quite
> true that this is exactly the same as saying "with which people can
> find..."
Is it possible that the author of Qohelet is here trying to write in Hebrew
a phrase using a specific word structure that is more natural in an Indo-
European language, such as Greek (the phrase being something of the
sort of "without which a man will not find")?