Ḥarbel y 'Arbel: la espada qumránica y el valle escatológico de "El libro de Zorobabel"
The author analyzes the triple presence of a place-name in the apocalyptic Book of Zerubbabel: the valley of Arbel. Following David Flusser, he considers the possibility of a Greek Vorlage of the current Hebrew text that may help to understand the phrase. It could be explained as a retroversion into...
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| Format: | Print Review |
| Language: | Spanish |
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2006
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Estudios bíblicos
Year: 2006, Volume: 64, Issue: 2, Pages: 237-255 |
| Review of: | Serubbavel-Apokalypse (Niclós Albarracín, José Vicente) |
| IxTheo Classification: | HD Early Judaism |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Apocalypticism B Intertextuality B Dead Sea Scrolls B Topography B Eschatology B Alttestamentliche Apokryphen |
| Summary: | The author analyzes the triple presence of a place-name in the apocalyptic Book of Zerubbabel: the valley of Arbel. Following David Flusser, he considers the possibility of a Greek Vorlage of the current Hebrew text that may help to understand the phrase. It could be explained as a retroversion into Hebrew of the composed idiom Ḥarbel through the transliterated Greek expression, losing the initial pharyngeal consonant, and its meaning would be something like "The valley of the sword of God", as a mythical eschatological placement for the last day's battle against Rome. It is attested in some Qumram texts as a name and as a eschatological leitmotif. Finally, the term reappears in the rabbinical discussions of the Midrash. It all might point to a likely date of the "Sefer Zerubbabel" towards the end of the first century AD, and to a Jew from the Diaspora, maybe from Rome, as its author. |
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| ISSN: | 0014-1437 |
| Contains: | In: Estudios bíblicos
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