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Old 17-05-2021, 10:19 PM
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Continuing:-

If we are to understand ancient texts it is not only the knowledge of the nuances of vocabulary of the source language that we need to take into consideration.

We also need to understand as much as we are able of the culture and customs prevailing at that time and place.--especially, Imo, when considering references to the the nature of the relationships within families.

One such which comes obviously to mind is the father/son relationship. For that relationship may have characteristics far more complex and defining than a simple biological connection.

We might ask,--to what extent would it have been the accepted norm within that culture for the son to be considered as representative of the father in matters of the fathers "business"?

If this were so, then references to father and son take on a particular significance when viewed with this possibility in mind.
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