To: "Isaac Fried" <if AT math.bu.edu>, <david.l.steinberg AT rogers.com>
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ecc 12:6
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:47:16 +0100
I'm reading the chapter 12 of Qohelet.
1. In verse 6 > I wonder why or how the noun "kad" comes without the
article.
2. In verse 7 > I wonder why the preposition before "ha-arets" is "'al" and
not 'el'. Preposition "el" seems to me it would be more "logical" than
"al"... unless the sense is the dust (resulting from corrupted flesh) goes
down, at the end, onto the surface of the earth...
Are there any good reasons for the lack of article in 6 and the preposition
"al" --and not "el"-- in 7?