המן הגורן או מן הגת?

קוד: המן הגורן או מן הגת? בתנ"ך

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In the Book of Isaiah we read:מדוע אדם ללבושך; ובגדיך, כדרך בגת.“Wherefore is your apparel red, and your garments like his that treads in the winepress?” (Is 63:2; see also: Thr 1:15; Neh 13:15). Yet in the Book of Judges we find:ויבא מלאך יהוה וישב תחת האלה אשר בעפרה, אשר ליואש אבי העזרי; וגדעון בנו, חבט חטים בגת,“And the messenger of YHWH came, and sat under the terebinth which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite; and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress” (Jud 6:11). Wheat is usually processed in a גרן - “threshing floor.” Furthermore, twenty-six verses later we read about Gideon’s threshing floor (Jud 6:37), and we have to wonder why he was beating out his wheat in winepress and not in his threshing floor. In the Book of Joel we read about: ומלאו הגרנות בר - “And the threshing floors shall be full of corn” (Joel 2:24), in the Book of Hosea we find: גרנות דגן - “corn threshing-floor” (Hos 9:1), and in the Book of Ruth we read about: גרן השערים - “the barley threshing-floor” (Ruth 3:2). Nowhere in the Bible do we find an association between (treading) grapes and a threshing floor, yet in the Book of Jeremiah we find: בת-בבל, כגרן עת הדריכה - “The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor at the time when it is trodden” (Jer 51:33). We have to conclude that the writers of the Books of Judges and Jeremiah (or some late scribes) were not closely familiar with the works of farmers and were not sure which functions were carried out in the גת - “winepress” and in the גרן - “threshing floor.