To browse Academia. This article analyses all passages in the Hebrew Bible where the root n p is used in order to establish its exact meaning, in particular its relationship to the root znh.
In a literal sense, their meanings are indiscriminately distinct. The root n p refers to marital infidelity, to adultery, which is nowhere described with the root znh. Although figuratively the two roots are used side by side including within parallelisms , there is no indication of their source domains overlapping. In the oldest passages where they appear next to each other in a figurative sense, i.
Janusz Nawrot. The present article deals with a linguistic issue well known in the Bible but not usually overtly present in the terminology of Hebrew and Greek Scripture.
This term appears only once in the Septuagint and is not featured in any of the other inspired books. However, the discovery of a non-biblical text which includes the term in question, as well as the inclusion of the verb by the Jewish authors of the Greek Bible from the 2nd century AD, shed important light on the sense of the verb in the First Book of the Maccabees.
Jack M Sasson. Chip Hardy. John Huehnergard. Frevel ed. Christian Frevel. This nuptial covenant was established in Eden but damaged by sin; it was restored at the Sinai theophany, perpetuated in the Temple liturgy, and expected to reach its final consummation at the end of days. The authors of the New Testament adopted the same key moments of salvation history to describe the spousal relationship between Christ and the Church.
