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An Alternative Meaning for in the Old Testament

An Alternative Meaning for in the Old Testament 110 but what he thought he saw-namely, lakes. It is not too difficult to envisage that Anah had been sent out herding when young and without desert experience; when therefore he first encountered the phenomenon of a mirage, he believed that he really had seen a great expanse of water in the desert-many travellers have recorded that they find it extremely difficult, when they first see a mirage, to believe that there is no water there, but only burning sand. Of course the boy would return home with his exciting story of having discovered great lakes in the desert, but would find his story greeted with ridicule from older people with desert experience; and it is perhaps not too extravagant to envisage that for the rest of his life he would find himself saddled with the joking epithet of "the lad who found lakes in the desert". Later and more unimaginative generations have failed to see the joke, and have solemnly reproduced it as if it had some deep and mysterious significance, and the interpreters have finally struggled in their various ways to assign to it some sense other than the straightforward "lakes". Oxford A. F. L. BEESTON http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Vetus Testamentum Brill

An Alternative Meaning for in the Old Testament

Crown, A.D.
Vetus Testamentum , Volume 24 (1): 110 – Jan 1, 1974
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Brill
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© 1974 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0042-4935
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1568-5330
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10.1163/156853374X00620
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110 but what he thought he saw-namely, lakes. It is not too difficult to envisage that Anah had been sent out herding when young and without desert experience; when therefore he first encountered the phenomenon of a mirage, he believed that he really had seen a great expanse of water in the desert-many travellers have recorded that they find it extremely difficult, when they first see a mirage, to believe that there is no water there, but only burning sand. Of course the boy would return home with his exciting story of having discovered great lakes in the desert, but would find his story greeted with ridicule from older people with desert experience; and it is perhaps not too extravagant to envisage that for the rest of his life he would find himself saddled with the joking epithet of "the lad who found lakes in the desert". Later and more unimaginative generations have failed to see the joke, and have solemnly reproduced it as if it had some deep and mysterious significance, and the interpreters have finally struggled in their various ways to assign to it some sense other than the straightforward "lakes". Oxford A. F. L. BEESTON

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Vetus Testamentum – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1974

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