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Food and Wine as Seductress to Doom, Even if the Sleeping is with One’s Own Wife! A Translation Note on 2 Sam 11.8b

avondale-bepress.context-key8057299
avondale-bepress.submission-paththeo_papers/99
avondale.affiliateCole, Ross
avondale.facultyTheology
avondale.reporting.isPeerReviewedPeer Reviewed
avondale.reporting.versionPublished Version
dc.contributor.authorCole, Ross
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-01T00:23:39Z
dc.date.available2023-11-01T00:23:39Z
dc.date.issued2015-04-01
dc.date.submitted2016-01-27T13:55:53Z
dc.description.abstract<p>In most translations of 2 Sam 11.8b the nuanced similarity of the two clauses is lost. Often the translation of the second clause depicts the king actively sending משאת המלך out after Uriah, even though the king is not the subject of the verb. It has been suggested that משאת המלך refers to a signaller who goes out to spy on Uriah. It is more likely that the reference is to the gift of the king, ambiguously personified as a woman seeking to seduce the hapless Uriah from his duty.</p>
dc.identifier.citation<p>Cole, H. R. (2015). Food and wine as seductress to doom, even if the sleeping is with one's own wife!: A translation note on 2 Sam 11.8b. <em>The Bible Translator, 66</em>(1), 106-110. doi:10.1177/2051677015569715</p>
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/2051677015569715
dc.identifier.issn2051-6789
dc.identifier.urihttps://research.avondale.edu.au/handle/1897/08057299
dc.language.isoen_us
dc.provenance<p>This article was originally published as:</p> <p>Cole, H. R. (2015). Food and wine as seductress to doom, even if the sleeping is with one's own wife!: A translation note on 2 Sam 11.8b. <em>The Bible Translator, 66</em>(1), 106-110. doi: 10.1177/2051677015569715</p> <p>ISSN: 2051-6770</p>
dc.relation.ispartofThe Bible Translator
dc.subjectambiguity
dc.subjectBathsheba
dc.subjectDavid
dc.subjectidiom
dc.subjectpersonification
dc.subjectUriah
dc.subjectwar
dc.titleFood and Wine as Seductress to Doom, Even if the Sleeping is with One’s Own Wife! A Translation Note on 2 Sam 11.8b
dc.typeJournal Article

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