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Non-Biblical Supplements To Classical Hebrew ¸Im1

1990; Brill; Volume: 40; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1163/156853390x00389

1568-5330

John Elwolde,

Ancient Egypt and Archaeology

221 commentaries of S. D. Luzzatto (discussed below) and of C. C. Torrey (The Second Isaiah: A New Interpretation [New York, 1928]), who reads the verse as a pun on gûr II ("the foe who attacks") and gûr III ("the stranger sojourning with you"). Torrey views punning as a major stylistic device of this poet, noting 35 instances in Isa. xxxiv-xxxv and xl-lxvi (treated as a single literary unit). His thesis, which fails to distinguish such diverse phenomena as polysemy, homonymy, and paranomasia, has been accepted only with drastic modification; cf. D. F. Payne, "Characteristic Wordplay in 'Second Isaiah': A