{"id":78190,"date":"2020-07-28T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T07:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=78190"},"modified":"2020-07-28T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T07:54:00","slug":"the-temple-becomes-a-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-temple-becomes-a-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Temple Becomes A Forest"},"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":[],"acf":{"old_id":"78190","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":54356,"related_cahpter":"535","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"And Zion plowed like a field\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3:12 \u201c\u2018Therefore, because of you, Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem become heaps of ruins and the Temple mount a high forest.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some have questioned the meaning of <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bamot ya\u2019ar<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, literally, \u201chigh places of a forest.\u201d The first of these two nouns can designate a topographical height and is also used of the rural altars despised by the Deuteronomist. The New Jewish Publication Society version renders the phrase in the latter sense, imagining that the holy Temple will be turned into a simple pagan hilltop shrine, but that seems unlikely. There are some biblical instances in which the two nouns joined in a construct state show a reversal of the semantic relation between the two. In this perspective, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bamot ya\u2019ar<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> would mean the same as <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ya\u2019ar bamot<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201ca forest of high places,\u201d which is to say, a high forest. Since the Temple was built on a mountain, after being razed, it would be replaced by the wild growth of a \u201chigh forest.\u201d<\/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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