You misrepresented me by saying I deny it to be a plural. I accept this as a
possibility and in fact have offered the LXX translation as corroborative
line of evidence for this traditional understanding. However, where I have
to pull you up is in the way you call George and Don's an 'erudite
analysis'. What analysis? All they have done is raised objections to a
construct interpretation. They are both still to date to offer a sensible
translation which demonstrates an alternative understanding. There is no
other logical way of understanding this phrase in this context than that of
a construct relationship. If you believe there is then please offer a
concrete translation that illustrates this alternative interpretation. In
you can't then the silence speaks for itself.
James Christian
On May 4, 2010, at 3:33 PM, JimStinehart AT aol.com wrote:
Dear Professor Vance:
You wrote: “Since HRRM ends in either a m pl absolute
ending or with a 3 m pl genitive suffix (making HRR status
pronominalis--forgive the butchered Latin), it cannot be in the
construct state by definition. As for translation, "mountains, Seir"
if we go with a plural understanding, or "their mountain(s), Seir" if
we go with a gen. sx.”
Could you please explain the following translation and comment by E.A. Speiser in “The Anchor Bible Genesis”?
“…in the* hill country of Seir.
*So most versions; MT ‘their’.”
Karl wrote:
But if it is a name, then it is possible to have its form in the construct. In fact, because it is in the construct, that is one of the reasons I claim that it
is a name and not a noun followed by a suffix.
If a name, it can be a combination of two or more words. One possibility is HR RM (high mountain) of the land of Seir. Another possibility is that it is not a Semitic name.
There are other names used in the construct, i.e. a site name followed by a district name. Examples include Bethlehem Ephrata to distinguish it from other places named Bethlehem, and Qadesh Barnea to distinguish it from two other places named Qadesh mentioned in Tanakh. So here I see two proper nouns in construct, one a city name, one a district name.
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