Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Robert Alter on Zechariah 10:2

  

wandered. The Masoretic Text reads yaʿanu, “answered” or “were afflicted.” This translation supposes a reversal of consonants and reads instead yanuʿu. (Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible, 3 vols. [New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019], 2:1374)

 

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