Saturday, June 20, 2026

Robert Alter on Habakkuk 2:16

  

expose yourself. This is the plausible understanding of the verb heʿareih (instead of the Masoretic heʾareil, of obscure meaning), reflected in the Targum Yonatan and in at least one medieval interpreter. What is involved is measure-for-measure justice. (Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible, 3 vols. [New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019], 2:1336)

 

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