By Aubrey Johnson
During this vintage remedy, Johnson offers an in-depth research of human life as awarded within the previous testomony. He examines the vast variety of Hebrew phrases and metaphors touching on lifestyles, physique, blood, spirit, and so on, which provide perception into old Israelites' conceptions of personhood, affliction, healthiness, pleasure, loss, and extra. the conventional Israelite view, which dominates the notion of guy within the previous testomony, is that to be in ailment of physique or weak spot of situation is to event the disintegrating strength of dying, and to be brough via Yahweh to the gates of Sheol; yet to take pleasure in sturdy healthiness and fabric prosperity is to be allowed to stroll with Him in fullness of existence.
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6: of God, 1 Sam. xiii. 12; Ps. cxix. 58; Zech. vii. 2, viii. 21, 22. Cf. Gen. xxxii. 21 ( E W . 20) (J). T h e reader should note, however, that the etymology adopted here is a matter of dispute. v. v. II nbfl. 6 Nevertheless here again we must beware of laying too great a stress upon what have obviously become mere figures of speech; for, as in the case of the prepositional phrases derived from this source,7 it is probable that the original significance of the Hebrew was hardly felt. The fact is that in these cases we are approaching the secondary use of the term D^JS, which has arisen through the employ ment of synecdoche.
2 in the Thought of Ancient Israel 29 dynasty in Jerusalem, uses the term ΙΤΠ by itself in order to say of Zedekiah:1 The breath (tfl*l) of our nostrils, the Messiah of Yahweh, Was caught in their pits; Of whom we said, 'In his shadow We shall live (V^n) amid the nations'. Similarly the great prophet of the Exile employs the two terms under discussion as being practically synonymous, when he refers to Yahweh as the God—2 Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who fashioned the earth and its products, Who giveth HOtPJ to the people thereon, And Π1Ί to those who walk therein.
8 Exod. xxxi. 3, xxxv. 31 (both P): cf. p. 32, n. 5. 9 Job xxxii. 8: cf. xx. 3 ; also Neh. ix. 20. : 'the Almighty*. in the Thought of Ancient Israel 35 Γη short, it appears that king and commoner are alike depen dent upon the ΓΓΠ of Yahweh; and this dependence involves not only their simple, physical existence but also the very potentialities of their psychical life. However, it is in one's own essential ΓΡΠ (with all that this involves in the grasping of a totality and the exercise of self-control)1 that the forceful and indeed purposeful individual is revealed.