Food and Wine as Seductress to Doom, Even If the Sleeping Is with One’s Own Wife!: A Translation Note on 2 Sam 11.8b
In most translations of 2 Sam 11.8b the nuanced similarity of the two clauses is lost. Often the translation of the second clause depicts the king actively sending משאת המלך out after Uriah, even though the king is not the subject of the verb. It has been suggested that משאת המלך refers to a signall...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Sage
2015
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The Bible translator
Έτος: 2015, Τόμος: 66, Τεύχος: 1, Σελίδες: 106-110 |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Uriah
B 2 Samuel 11.8 B David B War B Bathsheba B idiom B Personification B Ambiguity |
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| Σύνοψη: | In most translations of 2 Sam 11.8b the nuanced similarity of the two clauses is lost. Often the translation of the second clause depicts the king actively sending משאת המלך out after Uriah, even though the king is not the subject of the verb. It has been suggested that משאת המלך refers to a signaller who goes out to spy on Uriah. It is more likely that the reference is to the gift of the king, ambiguously personified as a woman seeking to seduce the hapless Uriah from his duty. |
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| ISSN: | 2051-6789 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: The Bible translator
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/2051677015569715 |