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  • From: "Liz Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>
  • To: "B-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Is. 42:6
  • Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 10:49:01 -0500


Why is this translated "I give you *as* a covenant of the people, a light of
nations?"
Why isn't it "I give you *to* a covenanted people, *to* the light of
nations?
The verb NTN routinely takes L to indicate the recipient.
In this way, the servant then is given *to* Israel, and is not Israel
himself.
Comments?

Thanks.
Liz

Lisbeth S. Fried
Visiting Scholar
University of Michigan
Department of Near Eastern Studies
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
lizfried AT umich.edu

Spem successus alit.




  • Is. 42:6, Liz Fried, 11/01/2000
    • <Possible follow-up(s)>
    • RE: Is. 42:6, Dan Wagner, 11/02/2000

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