{"id":60551,"date":"2019-08-03T22:40:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T19:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=60551"},"modified":"2023-02-26T17:05:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T15:05:21","slug":"all-in-the-family-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/all-in-the-family-2\/","title":{"rendered":"All in the Family (2)"},"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":[914],"acf":{"old_id":"60551","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"276","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Tamar\u2019s degradation unleashed a series of events that undermined the Davidic monarchy and threatened the king\u2019s safety and his very life","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Towards the end of our comments on the previous chapter, we noted David\u2019s descent from Judah via an affair with his daughter-in-law Tamar. Today\u2019s chapter leads with the tragic story of another Tamar who is subject to abuse and rape by Amnon, her half-brother, with David himself playing a crucial, albeit unwitting, role.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tamar\u2019s degradation (verse 12 uses the word <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nebalah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/257\/post\/58930\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we have commented on <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in 1 Samuel 25) unleashed a series of events that undermined the Davidic monarchy and threatened the king\u2019s safety and his very life. When David failed to react to the situation (21), Absalom, Tamar\u2019s full brother, set out to avenge his sister. Plotting over the course of two full years, he conspired to isolate Amnon at a place of his\u2014Absalom\u2019s\u2014choosing and had him killed. Fearing a reprisal, Absalom escaped to the land of Geshur (37) where he found sanctuary with its king, Talmay, who, recalling 2 Samuel 3:3, was his grandfather.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And yet, in the very next verse we read, \u201cSo Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.\u201d Why this repetition? The answer comes from Don Yitzkak Abrabanel (15-16<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> century), who parses these two verses carefully, yielding the following plausible distinction. Initially, Absalom sought sanctuary with his grandfather, Talmay, \u201cking of Geshur,\u201d in an undisclosed location. When the nature of David\u2019s ongoing grief (\u201che mourned his son daily\u201d) reached him, he feared retribution and moved to Geshur, the capital of the kingdom and, arguably, a fortified city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The closing verse begs interpretation, too. Translated literally, it states: \u201cAnd King David, she longed for Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead\u201d (39). The problem is that David, of course, is a masculine noun, while the verb \u201clonged\u201d (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vatekhal<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) is feminine. Rashi resolved this grammatical problem by treating the verse as elliptical (i.e., a key word is absent from the text, but implicit), saying: &#8220;David&#8217;s soul longed.&#8221; In fact, the very word \u201csoul\u201d (feminine in Hebrew) is also interpolated into the English translations of King James and the Jewish Publication Society (inter alia).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image: Niccol\u00f2 de Simone, The Banquet of Absalom, 1650 \/ wikimedia<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":60553,"id":60553,"title":"2sam13-Convito_di_Ansalonne","filename":"2sam13-Convito_di_Ansalonne.png","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2sam13-Convito_di_Ansalonne.png","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/all-in-the-family-2\/2sam13-convito_di_ansalonne\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"2sam13-convito_di_ansalonne","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":60551,"date":"2019-08-03 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