By Michael M Homan PH.D.
An exam of the functionality, shape and symbolism of historic tents, particularly within the Hebrew Bible, but in addition within the higher context of the traditional close to East. Terminology linked to tents and the mixing of phrases for domiciles are firstly explored. Then, utilizing ancient, mythological, archaeological and anthropological insights, tents are tested of their manifold utilization: domiciliary, army, nuptial and non secular. a number of parallels and types of the Tabernacle are assessed, and the Tabernacle's historicity is addressed. The paintings ends by way of interpreting a biblical word that dismisses councils: "To your tents, O Israel!"
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4 The remaining 343 times, ^rm denotes domiciles, mostly portable. io Vnk), but also "the tent of the covenant" (rvnrn ^rm), "the tent of Yahweh" (mrr ^rm) and 2 The wordn^n« occurs in Prov 7:17; nib™ in Ps 45:9; Cant 4:14. The MT of Num 24:6 also reads a^rm, but this is problematic, as the LXX, Vulgate, Syriac, and Targum Pseudo-Jonathan all read "tents" (o^rm), favored by the context within Balaam's oracle, especially vss. 5-6. " See John C. Trevor, "Aloes," IDB I (Nashville, 1962): p. 88; Marvin H.
G. 6 This is apparent in JE, which states that "Israel encamped according to his tribes" (Num 24:2). It is even more clearly developed in P: not only do the Israelites encamp by tribe, but there is a direct relationship between the degree of kinship and camp proximity. That is to say, the more closely related the tribes, the more likely they are to encamp next to one another. " Similarly Ps 105:12-13 and 1 Chr 16:19-20 remember the past as follows: "When they were few in number, insignificant, and strangers in it, wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people .
Gottingen, 1928): p. 299; Grundriss der vergleichenden Grammatik der semitischen Sprachen, I (Berlin, 1908-1913): pp. 194, 242. 11 "Hut" derives from Old English hyd (hide, skin), while "booth" denotes a simple roofed structure built of any material at hand, often in the context of animal husbandry or harvest (Webster's Third New International Dictionary [1971]). 12 Edward W. Lane, Arabic-English Lexicon 1:4, pp. 1582-83. 18 Also, roo can also be used metaphorically for the prosperity of the kingdom.