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Title: | דת and עין: Two verbs masquerading as nouns in Moses' blessing (Deuteronomy 33:2, 28). |
Authors: | Steiner, Richard C |
Keywords: | verbs blessings words Torah poetry grammatical gender abstract nouns Pentateuch |
Issue Date: | 1996 |
Publisher: | Journal of Biblical Literature |
Citation: | Steiner, Richard C. (1996, Winter). דת and עין: Two verbs masquerading as nouns in Moses' blessing (Deuteronomy 33:2, 28). Journal of Biblical Literature 115(4), 693-717. |
Series/Report no.: | Journal of Biblical Literature;115(4) |
Abstract: | Irregular spelling is not normally an obstacle to understanding the biblical text. Nevertheless, when the deviant spelling of a rare word coincides with the normal spelling of a common word, exegetes can be misled. I submit that there are two irregular spellings in Moses' Blessing: דת for דאת (Deut 33:2,מימינו אשדת למו) andעין for ען (Deut 33:28, וישכן ישראל בטח בדד עין יעקב). These spellings have disguised the identity of the forms in question, leading many exegetes to assume that they are nouns or simply scribal errors. I shall argue that they are, in reality, verbs and not in need of emendation. |
Description: | scholarly article |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/4790 |
ISSN: | 0021-9231 |
Appears in Collections: | Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications |
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