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  • From: "Christopher V. Kimball" <mail AT cvkimball.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Review of Alter's Translation
  • Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:54:19 -0400


I've read the review and was struck by the following assertion attributed
to Sáenz-Badillos:

(The vernacular vocabulary, according to the Spanish Hebrew scholar Angel Sáenz-Badillos, must have exceeded the Bible’s—a lexicon “so restricted that it is hard to believe it could have served all the purposes of quotidian existence in a highly developed society.”)

Is the vocabulary too restricted for daily life in 6-th century BCE? Is it restricted compared to other documents of the same period?




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