Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk" <Peter_Kirk AT sil.org>]

Dear Shoshanna,

You may be fluent in the original biblical Hebrew. If so, wonderful! Though
surely even you cannot claim to understand the original perfectly - if you
do, let me quiz you about the unclean birds in Leviticus!

But unfortunately there are billions of people in this world who are not
fluent in Hebrew, and who do not have any realistic opportunity to learn it.
Good translations into their mother tongues, or into other languages which
they know well, open up to them the religious, historical, cultural,
literary etc etc riches of the Bible. Even for scholars translations are
very useful, though preferably used in conjunction with the original text.
Of course no translation is going to be perfect, though one into classical
Arabic would be just about as good as you can hope for (as Arabic and Hebrew
are so close). But it may well be much better understood than the original,
which is well understood (in the original without any translation to help)
by so few.

Peter Kirk


-----Original Message-----
From: Shoshanna Walker [mailto:rosewalk AT concentric.net]
Sent: 01 January 2001 22:33
To: Biblical Hebrew
Cc: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: Re: Arabic Bible


>Does anyone know what the Van Dyck Arabic Bible is? I'm looking for a Bible
>in classical Arabic. Thanks.


Why?????

What is wrong with original Hebrew?

Do you really think that you could get an accurate rendition, in
Arabic????????

Shoshanna

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