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  • From: peter_kirk AT sil.org
  • To: <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re[2]: Translation: Ps. 118:26a (MT)
  • Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 19:27:45 -0400


I was about to put finger to keyboard to answer Dave and Joe
concerning Greek syntax. Then I realised, this is b-hebrew not
b-greek, what are we doing discussing Greek here? OK, it may be
relevant if it sheds light on the meaning of the underlying Hebrew,
but this can hardly be the case with late variant texts of the Greek
NT, where a LXX quotation has been adapted.

So just one point in reply to Dave: If the author of Mark was indeed a
Palestinian Jew, he would have known the then traditional
pronunciation of this phrase, as well as (or very likely rather than)
its written form. Probably, though of course not certainly, the
pronunciation he heard would have been the same as the Masoretes later
wrote down. How that would relate to the author's intended meaning of
the phrase is less certain - especially as in poetry, for metrical
reasons, there is commonly a mismatch between semantics and rhythm.

Peter Kirk





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