Peter: On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:27 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Karl, > > the sequence in Ezra is: > - return from Babylon > - building the altar > - beginning to build the temple and laing its foundation > - enemies stopped this process until (!) the second year of Darius (Ezra > 4,24) > > Haggai: > - some years after the end of building the temple Haggai calls the people > to begin to work again on the temple, this was the second year of Darius > (Hag 1,1) > > So there are some years in between Ezra 3,10 and Hag 2,8. That means JaSaD > can't have one and the same meaning in both instances. > Haggai 2:18 does not refer to the time of Haggai as when the foundation was laid, rather it refers to an earlier time, hence referring to the same event. > > Yours > Peter M. Streitenberger > Karl W. Randolph. _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
