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Adam.
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I'm skeptical. The relevant paragraph in the Baker article can be found by doing a search for "The distinctive readings of" (its first words). She says that photographs show an 'aleph in place of an 'ayin but her footnote concedes that no transcription agrees with her. The published transcriptions are certainly not infallible and we were indeed warned in my Qumran seminar not to rely on them, but go back to the photographs of the scrolls themselves. That said, I believe there are very few errors in the transcriptions, so the burden of argument is very much on her to argue why she reads that grapheme as an 'aleph when the transcribers read it as an 'ayin.
Secondly, 'aleph and 'ayin would have been pronounced the same by the time of the scribes of the Great Isaiah Scroll and were commonly mixed up. "Me'im" is a common compound preposition, literally from-with, which basically just means from.
Thirdly, even if it is "the mother of the Lord," I wouldn't take this to mean "God's mom" in the sense of theotokos, but "the mother whom God is particularly concerned with," ie. the `almah harah (pregnant young woman) of 7:14.
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Adam.
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The Great Isaiah Scroll is online, so I could look at the passage. The grapheme in question is kind of splodgy. I can see how you could just about make it out to be an 'ayin if you squinted right. That doesn't sound like the basis of a strong argument to me.
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mousethief
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IIRC from Hebrew 103 in college (and this was moons upon moons ago), "of the Lord" can just mean "really big" or "really important" and associated ideas. May not have anything to do with God at all. Just as when we say something is god-awful we don't mean that God thinks it's awful, or anything of the sort. We're not saying anything about God at all.
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Alan Cresswell
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So, you would accept "Go see Big Mama, she'll give you a sign" as a valid translation?
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mousethief
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quote: Originally posted by Alan Cresswell: So, you would accept "Go see Big Mama, she'll give you a sign" as a valid translation?
Depends. Does it come with a blues accompaniment?
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Alan Cresswell
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Ahaz was down, he was feeling really blue, Yeah, Ahaz was down, felling really blue. Then enemy was all around, there was nothing, no thing he could do.
The prophet came to Ahaz, he said he had a word, Listen to what he says, listen, yeah listen to the Lord. "Go down to see Big Mama when you're feeling blue, Go down to see Big Mama that's what you've gotta do. Big Mama'll show you a sign, and then you'll feel just fine"
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Chamois
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Alan Cresswell
Another suggestion: maybe it refers to the woman otherwise known in first Isaiah as "the Prophetess"?
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mousethief
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I second the
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Stejjie
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Martin60
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Hunch? Sceptical? British understatement eh?
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Philip Charles
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Musical setting anyone?
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Jamat
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quote: Originally posted by Alan Cresswell: Ahaz was down, he was feeling really blue, Yeah, Ahaz was down, felling really blue. Then enemy was all around, there was nothing, no thing he could do.
The prophet came to Ahaz, he said he had a word, Listen to what he says, listen, yeah listen to the Lord. "Go down to see Big Mama when you're feeling blue, Go down to see Big Mama that's what you've gotta do. Big Mama'll show you a sign, and then you'll feel just fine"
So lordy, lordy, lordy, Mama tell me, tell me true, Oh yeh, Lordy, Lordy, Lordy, Mama tell me, tell me true, Tell me, Oh tell me, if the word applies to me or just to you. (finish with 7th chord)
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