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- Sun Mar 17, 2019 1:20 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Women of the Wall
- Replies: 28
- Views: 39742
Re: Women of the Wall
Yeah, building the third Jewish Temple in the center of Samaria and the geographical center of the West Bank would surely solve all issues.
- Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:05 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Question regarding the Hebrew in Exodus 15
- Replies: 14
- Views: 21613
Re: Question regarding the Hebrew in Exodus 15
The Samaritan text says gibbor of war not ish of war. Also this is a Song. It is literally 'performed' so it was likely - like Homer - something passed along by oral tradition before the codification of the Torah. https://www.israelite-samaritans.com/samaritan-music-choir/ The description of Philo ...
- Fri Mar 15, 2019 7:15 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Question regarding the Hebrew in Exodus 15
- Replies: 14
- Views: 21613
Re: Question regarding the Hebrew in Exodus 15
Yes, the concern for Aaron borders on the comical. For example, his appointment as speaker for Moses is repeated three times in Exodus. Anyway, I can see why the current form of the text isn't seen as very old. Still, I'm not sure whether it doesn't contain an older kernel other than those two sente...
- Fri Mar 15, 2019 8:10 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Question regarding the Hebrew in Exodus 15
- Replies: 14
- Views: 21613
Re: Question regarding the Hebrew in Exodus 15
Now let me get this straight: I consider the book of Exodus to be a post-exilic text, written in the 6th century at the earliest and probably still edited in the 4th or 3rd century BC. The text of the Song of the Sea itself (the bulk of the first half of the chapter) cannot be "ludicrously" early, e...
- Fri Mar 15, 2019 5:33 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Question regarding the Hebrew in Exodus 15
- Replies: 14
- Views: 21613
Re: Question regarding the Hebrew in Exodus 15
At least it looks as if many scholars see the use of the short "Yah" as archaic. Psalm 104, one of the occurrences, even incorporates an abbreviated version of the Great Hymn to the Aten (before the part with the hallelu-Yah). Talk about recycling. By the way, I'm aware of the point that many schola...
- Wed Mar 13, 2019 4:00 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Question regarding the Hebrew in Exodus 15
- Replies: 14
- Views: 21613
Re: Question regarding the Hebrew in Exodus 15
Well, sure. Psalm 82:1 is an example of the use of both meanings though, at least one of them obviously not meaning the Judean God himself: אֱלֹהִים, נִצָּב בַּעֲדַת-אֵל; בְּקֶרֶב אֱלֹהִים יִשְׁפֹּט God (elohim) takes his stand in the congregation of the divine (el), among the gods (elohim) he judge...
- Wed Mar 13, 2019 2:06 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Question regarding the Hebrew in Exodus 15
- Replies: 14
- Views: 21613
Re: Question regarding the Hebrew in Exodus 15
Thank you very much. Yah/Jah is used roughly 50 times in the Tanakh, in half of the cases as the formulaic hallelu Yah in Psalms 102-150. All of these are basically songs, and such is the piece that is at the heart of the topic of this thread. Maybe, Yah just sounds better, or maybe, it's archaic. I...
- Wed Mar 13, 2019 3:33 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Question regarding the Hebrew in Exodus 15
- Replies: 14
- Views: 21613
Question regarding the Hebrew in Exodus 15
I have a short question regarding the beginning of the Song of the Sea in Exodus 15. After the first verse, which is basically the introduction, we get these verses 2 and 3 as the proper beginning: עָזִּ֤י וְזִמְרָת֙ יָ֔הּ וַֽיְהִי־לִ֖י לִֽישׁוּעָ֑ה זֶ֤ה אֵלִי֙ וְאַנְוֵ֔הוּ אֱלֹהֵ֥י אָבִ֖י וַאֲרֹמְמ...
- Wed Feb 27, 2019 6:32 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Low Christology was a very late thing
- Replies: 16
- Views: 15100
Re: Low Christology was a very late thing
That's a different question (when was a specific statement made), plus your solution is built on yet more assumptions.
- Tue Feb 26, 2019 10:50 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Low Christology was a very late thing
- Replies: 16
- Views: 15100