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An Explanation of the Plural Form of God’s Name

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dc.abstract.enGod’s name “Elohim,” common in the Hebrew Bible and Jewish tradition, is always used with verbs in singular even though it is in plural form. It is shown here that the ungrammatical usage can be seen as the best solution to a natural problem. Namely, tradition assumes that it should be impossible to talk about a general category of gods within which the one God could be located. The best and perhaps the only way to prevent the implicit pluralization of the unique God is to put his name in plural even though it is intended to be used as if it were singular. One cannot form the plural form of the name that is already grammatically plural! Surprisingly, this explanation seems to have been considered by neither classical nor modern commentators.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorKrajewski, Stanisław
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-24T16:42:10Z
dc.date.available2024-01-24T16:42:10Z
dc.date.copyright2018-07-18
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.accesstimeAT_PUBLICATION
dc.description.financeNie dotyczy
dc.description.number2(4)
dc.description.versionFINAL_PUBLISHED
dc.description.volume2
dc.identifier.doi10.26319/4720
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/100897
dc.identifier.weblinkhttp://eidos.uw.edu.pl/an-explanation-of-the-plural-form-of-gods-name/
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationphilosophy
dc.relation.ispartofEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
dc.relation.pages115-121
dc.rightsCC-BY-NC-ND
dc.sciencecloudnosend
dc.subject.enElohim
dc.subject.enGod’s name
dc.subject.enHebrew Bible
dc.subject.enJudaism
dc.subject.enBiblical criticism
dc.subject.enJewish philosophy
dc.titleAn Explanation of the Plural Form of God’s Name
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication