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Hosea 6:7; ‘like Adam?’ or ‘as in Adam?’ - Based on Semantical Uses of The Hebrew Preposition Kaph

  • Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies
  • Abbr : KJOTS
  • 2019, 25(1), pp.183-212
  • DOI : 10.24333/jkots.2019.25.1.183
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Old Testament Studies
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology
  • Received : December 31, 2018
  • Accepted : February 12, 2019

Minsu Oh 1

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ABSTRACT

ESV Hosea 6:7 “But like Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.” The clause “like Adam” is questionable, whether it is a personal name or a local term. Until now, the scholarship suggested very differential ideas; (1) Adam as a proper name, (2) city’s name, (3) the ancient city Admah on the base of the textual emendation, (4) ‘dirty’ on the base of the textual emendation. In order to resolve this problem the researcher takes the uses of hebrew preposition Kaph as his starting point. Its uses could be divided to nine rubrics. R 1: comparison, R 2: similarity, R 3: imitation, R 4: situational repeat, R 5: mental realization, R 6: announce and fulfillment, R 7: demand and fulfillment, R 8: temporal use(immediate sequence), R 9: quantitative use. According to philological argument the relevant prepositional use of Hos 6:7a definitively should be ascribed to R 4. Also, this conclusion can be asserted by verbal-syntactical(asyndesis) and syntactical(casus pendens) analyses.

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