God as an Enemy: Lamentations 2:5 in the Peshitta
Some early manuscripts of the Peshitta that seem to preserve the oldest version of P read in Lam 2:5 Adonai has become an enemy, he has devoured Israel, vis-a-vis MT כְּאוֹיֵב like an enemy. The omission of the comparative seems to go back to the proto-Masoretic Vorlage of P, which can be reconst...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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Textus
Year: 2025, Volume: 34, Issue: 1, Pages: 15-26 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Klagelieder 2
/ Syriac language
/ God
/ Idea of God
/ Enemy
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| RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Textual Criticism
B Lamentations B Peshitta B translation technique |
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| Rights Information: | InC 1.0 |
| Summary: | Some early manuscripts of the Peshitta that seem to preserve the oldest version of P read in Lam 2:5 Adonai has become an enemy, he has devoured Israel, vis-a-vis MT כְּאוֹיֵב like an enemy. The omission of the comparative seems to go back to the proto-Masoretic Vorlage of P, which can be reconstructed as *היה אדני אויב and is likely to have also formed the Vorlage of Tg. |
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| ISSN: | 2589-255X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Textus
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/2589255X-bja10051 |
