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Topic subjectRE: Are you trying to say that CHOKMAH is not AMON?
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782, RE: Are you trying to say that CHOKMAH is not AMON?
Posted by osoclasi, Thu May-27-04 12:07 PM
>Osoclasi,
>
>You wrote the following two bits:
>>>
>
>From this, I'm thinking you might be trying to argue that
>Wisdom is only similar to AMON or somehow compared to AMON.
>This is incorrect. The text says ah-MON not Ke-ah-MON which
>would be translated "as a craftsman". Indeed Wisdom is
>assigned the NATURAL gender of a male, for the writer

Response: Well as you know the ke is not always present in Hebrew whem making comparisons. And secondly, it says va'eheyah etzelu amon. I was by his side an architech, or I was by his side as an architech. But it does not say that wisdom's name is architech, so therefore it is describing the work that she is doing, she is an architech. But it does not mean that she is male. Now if wisdom were changed to *the architech* and that was it's name, I'd understand.
>specifically used the masculine form instead of the
>feminine.
>
>Regards,
>Tony