Teach us to Number our Days: an Intertextual Analysis of the 120 years of Man's Life in the Hebrew Bible
The biblical man's life span is ideally a set of three complete cycles of forty years each, totaling one hundred and twenty years. The one hundred and twenty is an ideal paradigmatic number, mathematically versatile and with a great symbolic content – conventionally perfect. Thus the transitory...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) |
| Repositorio: | Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital de Estudos Judaicos da UFMG |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufmg.br:article/23891 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/maaravi/article/view/23891 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Judaísmo Bíblia Hebraica Tempo Judaism Hebrew Bible Time |
| Resumo: | The biblical man's life span is ideally a set of three complete cycles of forty years each, totaling one hundred and twenty years. The one hundred and twenty is an ideal paradigmatic number, mathematically versatile and with a great symbolic content – conventionally perfect. Thus the transitory life fixed upon the one hundred and twentyyear expectation of the carnal and mortal man finds its meaning through the promise of long and productive life, which fulfills its divinely determined purpose and has as its summit satiety. |
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