Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Old Testament Essays
Angaben zur Quelle:
33,2 (2020) 189-206
Keywords:
Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish Middle Ages, 600-1500
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History
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Hebrew language, Biblical Terms and phrases
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Hebraists
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Manna
Abstract:
In this article, I shall discuss the adjectiveמחוספס and the word מן in the phraseמן-הוא, which both appear in the manna pericope in Exod 16:1415. I will present the different interpretations suggested by medieval Jewish commentators as well as modern scholars and dictionaries, and I shall attempt to show which one of the medieval interpretations is the most appropriate in the light of modern biblical philology. Medieval Jewish commentators suggested four different interpretations of the word מחוספס, two of which, "rounded" and "uncovered", have also been supported by the findings of modern biblical philology. Two medieval commentators rightly interpreted the word מן in the phrase מן-הוא as an interrogative pronoun. This is also the commonly accepted interpretation in contemporary modern biblical philology.
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