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  • From: "Ken Penner" <pennerkm AT mcmaster.ca>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Review of Alter's Translation
  • Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:10:09 -0400

> (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?

My favorite example: there is no word in the Bible for "tickle"!

Ken Penner
McMaster/Hebrew





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