Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Ian Hutchesson <mc2499 AT mclink.it>]

At 14.09 17/07/99 -0400, peter_kirk AT sil.org wrote:
>Well, Josephus may have claimed to be translating Hebrew originals. 
>His claim looks a little thin when he is at that point (AJ 10,10,6) 
>making a very abbreviated precis of an Aramaic original (Daniel 4) - 
>or perhaps he didn't know the difference between Hebrew and Aramaic? 

You still should read Garbini's article on Biblical Aramaic. He carves
Daniel's so-called Persian chancelry Aramaic as being a poor effort in
simulation. If it were reworked at the same time as Ezra, then we have a
basic date for Daniel's Aramaic, ie post-Josephus.


Ian

>;-) Josephus would not be the last person who claimed to be 
>translating the Bible from the original but was actually rephrasing an 
>existing translation, and he was clearly a man capable of such 
>"economy with the truth".
>
>So to continue the important digression (not a "red herring") we have 
>got into, and to extend the comparison to the Hebrew Scriptures (as 
>appropriate to this list) as well as to the New Testament, see my 
>comments interspersed below.