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Podcast: The Bible as Literature
Episode: The Semitic Triliteral
Description: To understand the power of the Semitic triliteral root, consider the grammatical, functional, empirical, and, thus, anti-Platonic literary interconnection between DaBaR (word), keDoBRam (pasture), yaDBeR (subdued), watteDaBBeR (destroyed), beDaBBeRo (at his speaking), miDBaRek (your mouth), and miDBaR (wilderness). Only in the original Semitic do we hear and see the consonantal link between the shepherdâs pasture, the utterances of God, the wilderness, and the subduingâeven the destructionâof those who hear his words. âHis dabar,â Fr. Paul Tarazi writes, âis administered in the wilderness and proceeds from his shepherdâs mouth while the sheepâs dilemma lies in that the utterly...