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- Title
THE DÔR OF HEZEKIAH AND THE SHEPHERD'S TENT: analysis of a metaphor (Isa 38:12).
- Authors
MOLLO, PAOLA
- Abstract
Hezekiah's prayer is an expression of refined biblical literary art, with many of its words and images having created divergences of interpretation over the centuries. One of these is the meaning of dôr in Isa 38:12. This study addresses its three different interpretations - "dwelling", "generation" and "life" - considering, above all, that the term is here used as a target of a metaphor whose source is, instead, the shepherd's tent. In particular, an analysis of the tent as a source in other biblical metaphors (Isa 30:20; 40:22; 54:2-3; Jer 10:20) highlights its versatile denotative valency, and leads to a better understanding of dôr within this specific context. This paper proposes to interpret the occurrence of dôr within Hezekiah's prayer not as "dwelling", as is generally believed by modern commentators and translators, but as "generation" or "life".
- Subjects
METAPHOR; HISTORY of the Bible; RELIGIOUS communities; CHRISTIAN literature; BLIND translators
- Publication
Henoch, 2017, Vol 39, Issue 2, p331
- ISSN
0393-6805
- Publication type
Article