"Bel Crouches; Nebo Travails": Reading Birth Imagery in Isaiah 46:1–4.
The traditional reading of Isa 46:1–4 understands the Babylonian gods as falling or toppling. Interpretation of the nature of their actions depends upon how one reads the verbiage applied to the deities, which hinges upon the translation of a series of either difficult or semantically diverse Hebrew...
| Publicado en: | Vetus Testamentum Vol. 73; no. 3; pp. 387 - 415 |
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2023
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