The Song of Heshbon and David's Nîr
Several perplexing problems cluster around the interpretation of the Song of Heshbon (Num. 21:27b-30). The crux interpretum is vs. 30, a verse which in the course of the textual transmission has become severely corrupted. A failure to penetrate deeply enough into the textual history behind that vers...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[1968]
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Harvard theological review
Year: 1968, Volume: 61, Issue: 3, Pages: 297-320 |
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| Summary: | Several perplexing problems cluster around the interpretation of the Song of Heshbon (Num. 21:27b-30). The crux interpretum is vs. 30, a verse which in the course of the textual transmission has become severely corrupted. A failure to penetrate deeply enough into the textual history behind that verse, resulting in a misunderstanding of its original relation to the remaining verses of the Song, has misguided the two major lines of interpretation in past scholarship. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816000029229 |