Bible Review

A. First Cycle
1. Job: first speech, chapter 3
2. Eliphaz: first speech, chapters 4–5
3. Job’s reply chapters 6–7
4. Bildad: first speech, chapter 8
5. Job’s reply, chapters 6–7
6. Zophar: first speech, chapter 11

The Greek Septuagint from the third century B.C. also translates the phrase as “help [soµson de], King.”

Brown is also mistaken in suggesting that “hosanna” is a transliteration of Aramaic; it is the normal Hebrew short-form plus the precative particle.

In this, he is echoing the suggestion of E. D. Freed, “The Entry into Jerusalem in the Gospel of John,” Journal of Biblical Literature 80 (1961), pp. 329–338.

Raymond E. Brown, The Gospel According to John (Anchor Bible), p. 457.

‘ElyoÆn was the oldest of the four generations of gods in the ancient Canaanite-Hurrian-Hittite theoganies, In the later Greek version of the theoganies, Hypsistos, “Most High,” replaced the Semitic ‘ElyoÆn.

See Patrick D. Miller, “Vocative Lamed in the Psalter: A Reconsideration,” Ugarit Forschungen 11 (1980), pp. 617–637.

William F. Albright, in Matthew (Anchor Bible), recognized the vocative l- in this line (p. 252). He failed to recognize it, however, following the second hosanna in this passage. See endnote 4.

Other examples may be found in 2 Samuel 14:4; 2 Kings 6:26; Psalms 12:2, 20:10, 28:9, 60:7 and 108:7.