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Re: orion 1st BCE generation; Animal symbolism

To: orion@mscc.huji.ac.il
Subject: Re: orion 1st BCE generation; Animal symbolism
From: Dierk <haGalil@gmx.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 03:21:37 +0100
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Russel writes:

>But pNah certainly will not
>have symbolized Jannaeus by an Angry Lion, for all the sectarian texts
>rigorously adhere to the system of symbolism in the Animal Apocalypse,
where
>Jews are symbolized by clean animals and Gentiles by wild predators.

???

See e.g.:
[....].raging lion. For I will be like a lion [to Ephra]im [and like a lion
cub to the House of] Judah. Its interpretation [concerns] the last priest
who will strech out his hand to strike Ephraim ... (4QpHos-a=4Q167)

Greetings
Dierk

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