From: Numberup@worldnet.att.net
Date: Thu Dec 16 1999 - 18:06:27 EST
Just doing a little more "detective work" on the LXX phrase DIA TOU PLINQIOU in the
LXX of 2 Samuel 12:31 [2 Kings 12:31]. Using the online classical dictionary of the
Perseus Project, it appears at first glance that it does not refer specifically to a
brick "kiln" at all. The same would hold true for the Latin Vulgate's "typo
laterum." In both instances, the word for "kiln" is entirely different. Do either
the LXX or Vulgate text allow for brick "making"?
Solomon Landers
Memra Institute for Biblical Research
http://www.memrain.org
Numberup@worldnet.att.net wrote:
> This question began on b-hebrew, but I am seeking some insights now into
> the LXX Greek rendition. Just what did David do to the war captives of
> Rabbah? Particularly, the part about making them "pass through the
> brick-kiln," DIAGAGEN AUTOUS DIA TOU PLINQIOU in the LXX. I do not
> have a lexicon for the LXX (though I corrected that oversight with an
> online order today), and the word does not appear in the Greek NT, so I
> do not know all the possible meanings for PLINQIOS. The Hebrew text has
> "malben," which some scholars contend means, not a brick kiln where
> bricks are burned, but rather, a brick mold, a wooden frame anciently
> used for shaping bricks. Correspondingly, they translate that David put
> the captive people to work making bricks, not torching them in a brick
> kiln.
>
> I was just wondering if the LXX reading sheds any light on what the
> Hebrew "malben" was.
>
> Solomon Landers
> Memra Institute for Biblical Research
> http://www.memrain.org
>
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