{"id":60221,"date":"2019-07-28T14:35:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T11:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=60221"},"modified":"2023-02-20T14:23:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T12:23:47","slug":"more-cutting-of-garments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/more-cutting-of-garments\/","title":{"rendered":"More Cutting of Garments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[586,543],"acf":{"old_id":"60221","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":54356,"related_cahpter":"273","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"The Ammonites provocatively violate diplomatic privilege","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10:4 \u201cSo Hanun took David\u2019s servants and shaved off half the beard of each and cut off half their diplomat\u2019s garb down to their buttocks, and sent them off.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Commentary: Shaving the beard is an insult to the masculinity of the ambassadors, all the more so because it is done in a disfiguring way, with half the beard left uncut. The exposure of one buttock, by cutting away half the garment vertically, is similarly shaming, perhaps sexually shaming. The garments in question, moreover, are not ordinary clothes, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">begadim<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">madim<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, garb worn in the performance of an official function (compare to the \u201cbattle garb\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">madim<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, that Saul gives to David in 1:17:38). The Ammonites thus are not merely insulting the ambassadors personally but provocatively violating their diplomatic privilege. In all this, we observe an extravagant reflection of the symbolic violation of Saul by David when he cut off a corner of the king\u2019s robe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From: Robert Alter, <em>The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton &amp; Co., 2019, ad loc. 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