The Spirit in the Pentateuch
From Creation to Supernatural Empowerment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20162299 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael L Brown (0000-0002-0495-7315, FIRE School of Ministry USA Concord, North Carolina, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 333-339 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pneuma (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0272-0965 • E-ISSN: 1570-0747 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15700747-bja10043 |
| OpenAlex | W4200134859 |
| Language | EN |
The noun rûaḥ , meaning breath, s/Spirit, or wind, occurs 378 times in the Hebrew Scriptures, with an additional eleven in the Aramaic portions of Daniel. Within the Pentateuch, rûaḥ occurs a total of thirty-eight times. The semantic breakdown of rûaḥ in these books is as follows: breath, five times (Gen 6:17; 7:15, 22; Exod 15:8, 10—although Yahweh’s “breath” here is the equivalent of the blowing “wind”); spirit, meaning either the human spirit or the divine Spirit but distinguished from mere breath, twenty-seven times. The principal texts that will concern us are Gen 1:2; 6:3; 41:38; Exod 28:3; 31:3; 35:31; Num 24:2; 27:18; and Deut 34:9
Art · Epistemology · Hebrew · Judaism · Linguistics · Literature · Noun · Theology · Torah · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · History · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |