Dr. Attila Marossy holds a Ph.D. in Old Testament Theology from the Faculty of Protestant Theology, University of Vienna, and an M.A. in Hebrew Studies from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, where he is Recurring Visiting Instructor at the Department of Assyriology and Hebrew, and the project coordinator of the Faculty’s Wikipedia project called HebraWiki, whose mission is to publish quality articles in Hungarian related to Biblical and Jewish Studies. Marrosy is also a pastor in the Lutheran Church of Hungary. His dissertation is titled, The Anatomy of Separation: Priestly Dichotomies and their Development in the Hebrew Bible (2017).
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May 10, 2022
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In pre-exilic texts, לְהַבְדִּיל lehavdil means “to select, appoint, designate.” In the Priestly text, the term is used to refer to physical separation, while in the Holiness Text, it takes on an abstract meaning, to distinguish between objects and people in a cultic sense. The book of Ezra uses a new form of the term, לְהִבָּדֵל lehibbadel, to urge separating from non-Jews, prompting Trito-Isaiah to argue against separating (lehavdil) any faithful person from YHWH and His Temple.
In pre-exilic texts, לְהַבְדִּיל lehavdil means “to select, appoint, designate.” In the Priestly text, the term is used to refer to physical separation, while in the Holiness Text, it takes on an abstract meaning, to distinguish between objects and people in a cultic sense. The book of Ezra uses a new form of the term, לְהִבָּדֵל lehibbadel, to urge separating from non-Jews, prompting Trito-Isaiah to argue against separating (lehavdil) any faithful person from YHWH and His Temple.
