From: "Nir cohen - Prof. Mat." <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>
To: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] tents = community ?
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:47:50 -0300
karl,
i agree with every word. my main point was that YO$EV OHALIM, I$ SADEH,
perhaps even I$ TAM are neutral terms
which cannot be used to fantasy on the moral character of the figures
involved.
i do not deny the need of everybody involved to complete the scanty pieces in
the text into a full
coherent picture of a live person and a patriarch; but in my opinion the end
result should be sold
as a painting, not as a photo.
i hope "moses" will come through in spite of the long address.
----On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:23:57 -0700, K Randolph wrote
> Nir:
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>
> wrote:
> but YO$EV still means to sit. maybe it means to sit in the tent
> instead of going out (the "pshat"), maybe it means to sit in the
> community/larger family ("drash").
> The meaning of the verb is to settle down, both in the sense of sitting
> down as you mention above, but also in the
sense of settling down in making a dwelling, settlement. So the concept
related here is of Jacob settling (i.e. dwelling) in tents.
> Karl W. Randolph.