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SON OF MAN
SON OF MAN
SON OF WAN
CONTENTS
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(S 14).
Creason of Erangairtr 7 (g 28).
M&sion'r Gorpcl (g u).
Resoit to the Hebrew (r .i). Fresh recourre to Aramaic(% ng). use of term by Gnorilcr (g )+).
Substitute for personal pronoun7 (% 16). Un?is in generic use and latcr transforma- Ure in Fourth Gorpcl (g +i).
ldcnl mml($xl). tlon (8 30). Effect on question of Jerur' Meriidrhip
Coming mm ($18). nefence ~f thlr theory (8 3,). (B 0).
cunent ~~~~i~~~~ title? (5 IQ). partial agreement (5 jz). value ~r different theories (6 I,).
Objeccionr by different rcholnrr($ 33). Bihliogr;iphy(g IS).
The expression 'Son of Man' (hen adam) is in emphaticallylow and zm emphrricrlly hiah eifimrre, asynthetic
Hebrew 1itecature a synonym of 'man.' Apart from and an analytic judgment, m arrumptPon t~sar it is a title of
office and an appeal to philolog and liter?ry criticirm ; and there
Ezekiel and Daniel it seems to be used exclusively in is an element of truth in each conrenuon. c her^ sm be no
00etic stv1e.
question ar to the genera1 identity of 'son 0' men' and 'man.'
Jem-ridam (O7H 12) in Nu. 5810 15.51 12 562 lcr.49 r e ~ 50~0 r Iris rlra quiteeridenr that 'ran of mrn' cannar have been
by man as a titie of a prophet. He might be referr~d to a,
hn-haa#h (*inn) 'the seer,' hen-niibi' (.".,>?) *the speaker,,
h=nl-~?ranh (n,loa) "the oracle giver; 1l ha-i/#htn: (wrM
o,n>nx), 'ths man of God,' but nor simply a .the
ordlnrw dolgnationr, however, would not be ro ruirablc in the
mouth of God and mgelr. By them the prophet would he either
call~d by name (Am.5~ Dan.92~ 10zrJ) or addrerred
representative of the human race. In rhc'hrtercare the fact
that celcarial beings hold cotlverre only with their cl~bsen
wovld nlturally make the erprerrion ruggerrive not merely of
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inferloriry of race, hut also of special pri\rlege. 'Its use would
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sonrcquenrly express the j,rupher'r ieif-conrciovsnerr er well
'I?=, .. JNP nrr very old: and the designation of the individual of hi3 humiliry. Uan. 8.7 shows tlxat insame circles if \vrr thought
the species as C?H-IJ or il>~.j?, a man, >??[?, sn ox, iN93 propu far the anflelur irrhrioruior to addrerr the prophetr
n rhcep or a goat, is likely to belong to the same early period. 'human being'(07~ la). when the name was not used.
A still simpler phrase for 'a man.' nhnd hn-idom The errlploynlsnt of this ph-e by Ezekiel seems,
(DW? ,m), occurs only in Judg. 167, where it remr to then, to have arisen from the double feeling of humility
have been preserved from an earlier form of the story in
and elation expressed in Pr. 8. Much of the repetition
may be due solely to literary habit, and some instances
which Samson was not 'one of mankind' but a solar
divinity. While ii (.N, originally a150 a collectire, cp
ixw- ww. WK ,J>) and iiEh (nv~) apparrntly tended to
displace hcn-iidom and bath-Eddm (or bnlh hnn-nofin,
Dan. 11 I,) and ,"ere rupplemmted by 'iilii,n and czar in
the sense of 'man ' 'the human bring,' der .I.fenrch
(frequenfly found in Ecclus.), the plurals hni &dim and
dni iimalntained themselves more strongly against the
collectirrs both in the sense of ' pop1e ' ,Lcute' aild
in that of ' runnkind.'
Tile oluralr occur ihur : Ll?n '13 in Gen. 11 r Dt. 528 I S.
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3iozr8ix 8312; Y.5 .?? in Pr. 4349162~oLirn.3~) Ecclur. /
16 x i 38 23 38, 40 r : 02:; niiq, 'the womctl of the human !
race' in Gcn. 62.
in Ezekiel the erprerrion .son of ,man' occurs some i
ninety timer, always as the title by which the prophet is 1
speeia, use addressed by Yahwe. 'The question
naI~~caliy arises, why Ezdicl
in
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presented YahwC as constantly employing
this term ; or, if its use war not due to conscious
reflection, but to inspiration in a cerfain patholoaicnl
condition, why this particular form of spfrch suggested
itself with such frenuencv.
instances .,K occurs three rimer a; = plural or collcdiue-uir.
cin c?p? ,air O ~ P 'hiore gods and man' (Zenjirli, Pannmu