On Thursday 18 March 2004 04:59, Stephen Goranson wrote: > Apparently, here is a photograph of a Genesis 22 fragment, said to be from > Qumran, that is mentioned in a recent news article: > > http://www.deadseaexhibit.com/downloads/Press_Images/Genesis_Frag-hi.jpg > > This was mentioned in 13 Sept 2003 Star Telegram: > > http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/living/religion/6753955.htm > > According to the 18 March 2004 Akron Beacon Journal > > http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/8215027.htm > > Hanan Eshel proposes that Abraham is told here not to take Isaac "your son" > but Isaac "my son." > > That reading has been questioned, as has the proposed association of this > fragment with 4Q252.
I would hope the reading has been questioned! Looking at the line above it, there's a clear distinction between the yod there in )LHYM and the key letter at the end of the word BN. The yod's size is quite distinctive, and I don't see how anybody could read the letter in the next line as anything but a vav, i.e. "his son." -- Dave Washburn http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur Learning about Christianity from a non-Christian is like getting a kiss over the telephone. _______________________________________________ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot
