Biblical Hebrew Forum

[peter_kirk AT SIL.ORG]

Interesting to hear about these deliberately literal translations.

Can I ask one question about how literal they really are? I have a 
test for those who insist on literal translations. How do their 
translations render )EREK )APPAYIM in Exodus 34:6 etc? Do they say 
that YHWH has a long nose, "length of nostrils" or something like 
that? I have never heard of an English translation which does so and 
so is truly and consistently literal.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Bible translations
Author:  furuli AT online.no at internet
Date:    09/03/1999 08:47

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I am aware of only two modern Bible translations that have translated 
strictly literally, in order to let the target group get a feeling of the 
original text, namely the NWT and The Schocken Bible, by Everett Fox (where 
just one volume has been published).