By A. A. MacIntosh
ISBN-10: 0521094623
ISBN-13: 9780521094627
ISBN-10: 052122943X
ISBN-13: 9780521229432
The most imprecise passages within the booklet of Isaiah, bankruptcy 21 includes oracles relating overseas international locations. the writer offers intensive with the textual and linguistic difficulties offered via the textual content; he additionally considers the old historical past of the prophecy, the literary kinds involved and the traditions of interpretation in old medieval and smooth occasions. In learning those traditions, Mr Macintosh makes wide use of medieval Jewish commentators whose paintings isn't really usually on hand in English.
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For ibn Ezra the night is a particular night of the week and he refers to the night in which Moab was destroyed according to Isa. xv i. For Rashi the night signifies the darkness and oppression suffered by Israel by reason of the yoke of Edom. 5 The word V»V in the second half of the repeated question 1 For 173^ with the meaning 'city watchman', see Song of Songs v 7. g. Marti and Procksch. 3 He discounts the late Isa. lxii 6 where onnff denotes superna ural (angelic) beings. g. , Wildberger, the repetition.
P. 1045. The error probably arises from the phrase «]tfj vin in Jer. ). 22 ISAIAH XXI translates the phrase as a whole: Babylon dilecta mea posita est mihi in miraculum. e. e. dusk; for that of dawn he compares Job vii 4). Saadya renders the phrase *»DW ino 'the dawn of my ardent zeal', which suggests that he was one of the authorities referred to by ibn Janah. That this was also the view of the Peshitta may be inferred from swpf dsbyny lit. 'the beauty of my desire' where swpf is probably an internal corruption of spf 'dawn'.
First person) may be regarded as an accommodation to its (free) translation of the previous verse rather than as implying that it read 0*^1. Buhl, however, takes the view that an original rp*ni was read rPNTt by the LXX. ' The interpretation differs little in substance from that of ibn Ezra (see above) and, as the latter is entirely appropriate, Buhl's emendations may be judged superfluous. Considerable uncertainty attaches to the precise meaning of the terms used of what is to be (or was) seen.
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