tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904882182453392367.post8419517221812512368..comments2023-06-05T05:23:40.380-07:00Comments on Dust: Ecclesiastes chapter 2, who's who in Qohelet villeBob MacDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904882182453392367.post-54052403406204277842010-05-08T23:04:19.794-07:002010-05-08T23:04:19.794-07:00Hi Tim - thanks for the note. This word recurs twi...Hi Tim - thanks for the note. This word recurs twice more each time in the same phrase (5:18, 6:12) and I think it can be the word as related to 'tally' - BDB page 709 allows tale as a gloss. I admit it is light hearted. I am at the regional SBL meeting this weekend - some nice presentations this afternoon on the scrolls.Bob MacDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904882182453392367.post-53957681705073779772010-05-08T11:09:41.667-07:002010-05-08T11:09:41.667-07:00Hi, Bob, this was really interesting, I'm enjo...Hi, Bob, this was really interesting, I'm enjoying especially the big picture comments :)<br /><br />A detail in 2:3 you render sepher as "tale" but I think if the oral and relatively informal telling was in view it would read "divre" - a sepher, as writing, means rather a (formal) record, more like a government file than a camp fire tale. (I think.)Tim Bulkeleyhttp://5minutebible.comnoreply@blogger.com