Saturday, June 20, 2026

Robert Alter on Nahum 3:8

  

water is her wall. The Masoretic Text reads miyam, “from the sea,” but a simple revocalization of those three consonants to mayim yields the more coherent “water.” (Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible, 3 vols. [New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019], 2:1327)

 

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