Re: GAZA GAZA or repeating roots

From: clayton stirling bartholomew (c.s.bartholomew@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Wed Feb 11 1998 - 12:56:36 EST

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Greg Bloomquist wrote:
>
> Though not in the NT, one of my favourites is the one pointed out
> by Cassuto in Gen 2.24 and 3.1 (contiguous verses): the man and
> the woman were both 'arumim; the serpent was the most 'arum of
> all the creatures! (I am tempted to translate the word "slick",
> but I fear American retaliation! :-)
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
This is good. There is another famous one in Gen 2:7
where h'adam is formed min h'adamah.

Then perhaps what Luke is doing with GAZA in Acts 8:26-27 is a semitic sort of
thing.

>(I am tempted to translate the word "slick",
> but I fear American retaliation!

"Slick" is much to nice a word. No retaliation from this quarter.

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Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
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PostScript
Cassuto on Genesis (and Exodus) is great isn't he. 
To bad he didn't live to finish the Pentateuch.

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