사무엘상 5-6장에 나타난 עפלים의 의미 = The Meaning of the Noun עפלים in 1 Samuel 5-6

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper starts with the translation issue of a noun עפלים in 1 Samuel 5-6. The noun עפלים in 1 Samuel 5: 6, 9, and 12, and 6: 4-5 is not tumors but hills that are classified as residential areas. This alternative reading is consistent with the emphasis of 1 Samuel 5-6 on the place of the ark where it should be placed. The ark of the LORD stayed in the field of the Philistines for seven months. The lords of the Philistines decided to offer five golden mounds, that is, five golden mice as ’asham. Mice are not real mice as the Septuagint mentions. The waw before the noun mice or tumors is not taken as the coordinate conjunction but as waw explicative in 1 Samuel 6: 4, 5, 11, and 18. The golden mice are used as synonymous to the golden mounds. The golden mice mean the golden figures in 1 Samuel 6:8 and 15.
The reading of the Septuagint that the mouse was a vehicle to carry the disease is not plausible, but we need to accept that the Septuagint can be consulted when we decipher the meanings of the BHS text. We can see that the Septuagint fails to deliver the original meaning and intent of the BHS 1 Samuel 5-6. The Philistines who wanted to stop the plague had to repair their fault by giving votive offerings called ’asham. The five lords of the Philistines did not repeat Pharaoh’s mistakes. After David had to give sacrifice to atone for his sin in 2 Samuel 24, the plague was averted from Israel but the author of 1 Samuel 5-6 does not tell explicitly whether the outbreak of plague in the cites of the Philistines stopped or not.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1. 들어가는 말
• 2. 복수 형태인 명사 עפלים에 대한 대안적 번역
• 3. 쥐의 언급
• 4. 사무엘상 6장 2-9절의 논의
• 5. 나가는 말
• 참고문헌(References)
• Abstract