Open AccessDid Rashi Notice a Janus Parallelism in Ezek 20:37?
Author(s) -
Herb Basser
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of hebrew scriptures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1203-1542
DOI - 10.5508/jhs.2008.v8.a14
Subject(s) - yoke (aeronautics) , janus , paraphrase , parallelism (grammar) , philosophy , notice , literature , theology , linguistics , law , art , political science , computer science , fly by wire , flight simulator , programming language , operating system
Rashi seems to have combined two understandings of māsōret (Ezek. 20:37): “restraining fetter (mōsēr)” and “divine promises God had handed down (māsar).” “Fetter” looks backwards in the verse to God's yoke of obligations and forwards in the verse to the rewards of “the inherited covenantal promise”. Rashi's co-ordination of dual roots in his brief paraphrase seems to anticipate what modern scholars call “Janus parallelism”.