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20 nov 2023 · La legge di Lamech”. Ovvero, citando il personaggio biblico discendente da Caino, Ravasi illustra come per Lamech la punizione per chi gli ha inflitto una pena sarà esorbitante, ovvero del tutto sproporzionata. Se Caino è stato vendicato sette volte, “Lamech verrà vendicato settantasette volte. É la logica della vendetta totale”.
Lamech. Lamech (Heb. לֶמֶךְ) was one of the antediluvian patriarchs in Genesis. According to the list recounting the lineage of Cain ( Gen. 4:17–24 – ascribed to the J tradition), Lamech was the son of Methushael (4:18) and the father of three sons, Jabal, Jubal, and Tubal-Cain, and a daughter, Naamah (4:20–22).
18 ago 2023 · Lamech was known for arrogance, polygamy, and violence. In the account of Cain’s descendants, Lamech was purposefully singled out as if to conclude the story of Cain with hopelessness and corruption. In a sense, Lamech is the epitome of God’s warning to Cain, “sin is crouching at your door and its desire is for you” ( Genesis 4:7 NASB).
Lamech’s poem in Genesis 4:23f. is an example of early Heb. poetry with perfect parallelism. There are at least two interpretations of the poem: (1) Historical—Lamech had committed murder, and in remorse and self-justification he excused his crime as self-defense; (2) Anticipatory—It was a threat of what Lamech could do since his son, Tubal-Cain, had invented the sowrd.
Lamech said to his wives: “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; you wives of Lamech, listen to what I say: I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me. If Cain's revenge is sevenfold, then Lamech's is seventy-sevenfold.” —Gen. 4:23–24 [ESV] That’s it. That’s all is told to us about what Lamech says to his wives.
Lamech. poor; made low. Smith's Bible Dictionary. Lamech. ( powerful ), properly Lemech. The fifth lineal descendant from Cain. ( Genesis 4:18-24) He is the only one except Enoch, of the posterity of Cain, whose history is related with some detail. His two wives, Adah and Zillah, and his daughter Naamah, are, with Eve, the only antediluvian ...
2. Descendant of Seth and father of Noah (Gen. v. 28-30), whom Lamech begat at the age of 182 years; his life covered a period of 777 years. The coincidence of the names "Lamech" and "Enoch" in the Cainite and Sethite genealogies, as well as the similarity between other names in the two lists, has led modern scholars to suppose that these are ...
