Monday, May 4, 2026

Robert Alter on שְׂכִיָּה (KJV: Pictures) in Isaiah 2:16

  

lovely crafts. The translation follows a scholarly proposal for the noun sekhiyot, but its meaning is obscure, and the conclusion about what it might be is dictated chiefly by the poetic parallelism. (Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible, 3 vols. [New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019], 2:629)

 

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