1. You might want to check the archives. In some ways, this thread is reinventing the wheel, so to speak, although I have to admit that your point of view is definitely unique. 2. Re: a possible agenda, fair enough. 3. Re: olam and your quest for a one-size-fits-all definition; I guess this begs the question, how do you translate it when it refers to God?
Gary On Dec 9, 2010, at 7:44 PM, fred burlingame <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Gary: > > Thanks for your comments. Please allow me to respond. > > 1. I have not reviewed the archive you referenced. > > 2. I do have an agenda by coming here: to learn more of biblical hebrew > language. That's the limit of it, for however long I might be here. > > 3. I appreciate your comments concerning olam. My experience with all uses of > the word in the masoretic text leads me to a somewhat different understanding > of the word. I see the word as meaning "a concealed (or hidden) period of > time." Other parts of the text sometimes reveal the length of that particular > time, such as jonah in the whale for 3 days. And other instances of the word > sometimes contain no such revelation of the length of time intended. > > 4. Hence, for the verse in question I see the term of the priesthood duties > and functions as simply an unknown period of time. The later disclosure (in > jeremiah) of the subsequent destruction of the first temple, including the > loss of the aaronic line of priests, confirms to me that the period of time > intended in this verse consumed approximately 1400-587 b.c. _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
