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- Title
RESOLVING THE CRUX OF JUDGES 7:5b-7: A CRITIQUE OF TWO TRADITIONAL APPROACHES AND THE REPROPOSAL OF A THIRD.
- Authors
Hornkohl, Aaron
- Abstract
The article summarizes and critiques the two dominant approaches to the exegetical crux of Judges 7:5b-7, namely the harmonizing approach and the textcritical approach, arguing that neither satisfactorily resolves the issues. It then reproposes an all but totally ignored reading known among the medieval rabbis, further supporting it with the recognition of a known syntactical feature of Hebrew grammar. The reading proposed in the article is superior to the dominant approaches because it avoids forced harmonization, on the one hand, and unwarranted textual emendation, on the other. "Everyone who laps with his tongue from the water as the dog laps, set him apart, and everyone who crouches on his knees to drink." And the number of the lappers with their hand to their mouth was 300 men and all the rest of the people got down on their knees to drink water. And the Lord said, "With the 300 lapping men I will deliver you and I will give Midian into your hand; but all the people may go, each man to his place." (Judg 7:5b-7)
- Subjects
BIBLE. Judges; CONTENT analysis; HEBREW language; GRAMMAR; BIBLICAL language &; style; JEWISH languages; SEMANTICS
- Publication
Hebrew Studies, 2009, Vol 50, p67
- ISSN
0146-4094
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/hbr.2009.0035