[B-Greek] 1 Sam 2:26 AGAQON
Albert Pietersma
albert.pietersma at sympatico.ca
Sun Dec 28 14:18:07 EST 2008
On Dec 28, 2008, at 5:33 AM, Randall Buth wrote:
> NETS did pretty well with the mess of the Greek, it preserved the
> literal 'kept going' and hinted at the non-Hebrew Greek metaphor
> of 'was becoming praised, great'. But yes, it did perhaps
> cheat a little by partially correcting from the Hebrew on the word
> 'favor' instead of 'respected, noble, good'.
What NETS does here is to diambiguate AGAQON. Given the NETS rule
"idiomatic Greek should be rendered by idiomatic English" and vice
versa, this might be questioned and "good" might have been preferable.
But then, the ideal is seldom realized. Given the semantic range of
AGAQON I am not sure that "favor" is imported from the Hebrew.
Al
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