Monday, June 15, 2026

Robert Alter on Hosea 10:13

  

in your own way. The Masoretic Text makes perfectly good sense, but it is worth noting that the Septuagint seems to have used a Hebrew text that read berikhbekha, “in your chariots,” instead of bedarkhekha, “in your own way.” This yields a better parallelism with “warriors” in the second verset. (Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible, 3 vols. [New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019], 2:1230)

 

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