----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Penner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Megillot'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 4:48 PM Subject: [Megillot] RE: Review of Biblical Literature, October 11th, 2004
> Those of you who do not already receive notices from the Review of Biblical > Literature may be interested in the following reviews: > > Goff, Matthew > The Worldly and Heavenly Wisdom of 4QInstruction > http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=4058 > Reviewed by Ian Werrett [snip] excerpted from Ian Werret's review: "In the second chapter Goff examines the concept of revealed wisdom in 4QInstruction by focusing on raz nihyeh, a phrase that occurs twenty times in the text and is translated by Goff as "the mystery that is to be". Goff convincingly argues that raz nihyeh, a major theme in 4QInstruction, represents a type of hidden wisdom that can only be accessed through divine revelation" I'd translate "the secret of being" [cf. 4Q432 frg 3.2] instead of" the mystery that is to be" [in 1Q26 et par] and reach then via nistrarot [hidden Torah] revelation merchanism by the "voice of God" [the Doresh ha-Torah; henceforth DhT] acc. to 0CD col i = 4Q268 frg 1.01-08 + 4Q266 frg 2.i.1-6 a different emphasis of the texts. BTW the reading of bjdkh as "in your hand" in DJD 1.101-102 - is it already corrected to Johan Maier's proposal "fruit of your womb" ? Moreover, I do not see such a Hagu (hhgw/j) pericope in 4Q417 frg 1.13-18. Not only is line 19 the textual prolongation of line 18, line 13 is no starting point for something that sounds dualistic, whatsoever. More likely the passage is directed to an official, like a DhT or Maskil. In fact I guess if we all have the same 4Q417 frg1 i 13-18 at hand. Would be interesting now to know if Goff reads w'br instead of j'br (like 4Q418) in line 15 of a pericope that is none, for the latter would directly lead to the additional presuppositions of the reversal of God's wrath "after" the reversal of the surviving rest to the Torah acc. to the political "Threat Song against Asshur" doctrine Is 10.5-12.6 in 4Q161 = 4QpIs (a), necessary for YHWH's redeeming intervention Is 10.33-34, the prestage of the enthronement of a Davidic branch as king Is 11.1-5 _dierk ---------------- unidentified heat signature ---------------- _______________________________________________ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot
