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  • From: "Will Pratt" <prattw AT nevada.edu>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: b-hebrew digest: January 27, 2001
  • Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 08:06:11 -0800




> From: "sdavis" <sdavis AT inter.net.il>
> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 9:00 PM
>
> Subject: Isaiah 7.14
> X-Message-Number: 2
>
[snip]
> I would like to make a number of rebuttals regarding Dan's
> arguments to
> Isaiah 7:14:
[snip]

I'd like to add to this. There exists a Christian semitic-language
translation of the Bible, the Peshitto, which is in Aramaic. In such
critical texts as Matt. 1:23, the Peshitto translates the Greek
parqenov as b:toltah (= Heb. b:tw.lah) rather than `almatah (= Heb.
`almah). That is, in a passage where parqenov is unquestionably meant
to read "a virgin", Christians who were native speakers of a semitic
language used b:toltah/b:tw.lah to translate it. They oviously did
_not_ consider `almatah/`almah to mean "virgin". The postion that it
was `almah that meant virgin would seem to be untenable, since
Christians of the early Common Era did not use it that way.

Will

Will Pratt
prattw AT nevada.edu





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