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ArchivesRe: Rebecca = sacrificial animal? well-fed?
in reply to a message by Noa
Thank you, Noa, for correcting this. Being in a hurry, I wasn't looking right.
The biblical dictionary does give a hint though: The (assumed) verbal root RVQ lies behind the term marbeq = stall, and the explanation there says, that the calves were tied up there for fattening. This makes sense to me.
Our (western) beauty ideal seems to be far a way from any comparison of a beautiful woman with a fattened calf, but that may have been different in biblical times.
Thanks for setting me on the right track, Noa!
Andy ;—)
The biblical dictionary does give a hint though: The (assumed) verbal root RVQ lies behind the term marbeq = stall, and the explanation there says, that the calves were tied up there for fattening. This makes sense to me.
Our (western) beauty ideal seems to be far a way from any comparison of a beautiful woman with a fattened calf, but that may have been different in biblical times.
Thanks for setting me on the right track, Noa!
Andy ;—)
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