- Tytuł:
- An Explanation of the Plural Form of God’s Name
- Autorzy:
- Krajewski, Stanisław
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/451275.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2018-07-18
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Filozofii
- Tematy:
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Elohim
God’s name
Hebrew Bible
Judaism
Biblical criticism
Jewish philosophy - Opis:
- God’s name “Elohim,” common in the Hebrew Bible and Jewish tradition, is always used with verbs in the singular even though it is in the plural form. It is shown here that the ungrammatical usage can be seen as the best solution to a natural problem. Namely, tradition assumes that it should be impossible to talk about a general category of gods within which the one God could be located. The best and perhaps the only way to prevent the implicit pluralization of the unique God is to put his name in plural even though it is intended to be used as if it were singular. One cannot form the plural form of the name that is already grammatically plural! Surprisingly, this explanation seems to have been considered by neither classical nor modern commentators.
- Źródło:
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Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture; 2018, 2, 2(4); 115-121
2544-302X - Pojawia się w:
- Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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