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  • From: Barry <nebarry AT verizon.net>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Takliyth
  • Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:36:12 -0500

On 11/5/2012 3:54 PM, George Athas wrote:
I don't think Augustine is reading anything into תכלית. He's not reading
Hebrew at all. He's reading Latin 'perfectum'. So to a large extent,
your approach is asking the wrong question. If you want to know what
Augustine thought, just look at Latin 'perfectum'. If you want to know
whether Augustine's view incidentally overlaps at all with the Hebrew,
you need to compare the semantic ranges of תכלית and 'perfectum'.


I've already posted on the semantic range of "perfectum." While Augustine knew no Hebrew, and only limited Greek, he is using Jerome's translation (at least the text he reads matches that translation), and so this gives us a clue as to how Jerome read the Hebrew at that point.

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