The title of Peretz Smolenskin’s Burial of the Donkey is a reference to Jeremiah’s oracle concerning Jehoiakim’s demise: “With the burial of a donkey he shall be buried—dragged off and thrown out beyond the gates of Jerusalem” (Jer. 22:19). This 1873 novel depicts a nineteenth-...
Furthermore, Batchelor’s theory cannot be utilized to make sense of all texts in which chromatic and achromatic colour appear in the Hebrew Bible. Contexts are always relevant for meaning, and stating that a general aversion toward hues is found in the Hebrew Bible is as simplified as to ...
(Aramaic) from a word derived from an unused root (meaning to gather) and a derivation of a root corresponding to 'sahed' (7717); heap of the testimony; Jegar-Sahadutha, a cairn East of the Jordan:--Jegar-Sahadutha. 3027 yadyawd a primitive word; a hand (the open one (indicating...