Hello Isaac:
Thanks for your comments.
You could be right, since I am but the consumer 1,000 years removed, rather than the creator, of the masoretic text.
But ... how do you read עד עולם in genesis 13:15; and in the context of 2 chronicles 36:17? "forever?" "eternally?" And if so, how do you define "forever" and "eternally" in terms of length of time?
Or perhaps you understand עד עולם in this particular context, in yet a third and different manner?
I look forward to hearing from you, on your precise meaning of this phrase in this verse?
I note in closing that surely someone else's house stands on that land today at this very moment.
regards,
fred burlingame
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:
I am sorry to have to say this, but this talk of a "hidden" period of time is in my opinion a symptom of a basic misunderstanding of the workings and nature of the Hebrew language. The rest is theology.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
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