Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Lisbeth S. Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>]

>
> > word order was one of the indeces of a Semitic vorlage.
>
> Liz,
>
> Yes and no.
>
> Have you ever heard a '50's vintage fundamentalist preacher give a public
> prayer? You would thing the guy had grown up talking to Shakespeare.
>
> Some Jewish authors of Greek texts in the Hellenistic period grew up using
> the LXX as their bible.  The syntax of the Pentateuch (LXX) would have no
> doubt permeated their writing style.
>
> For this and other reasons, I don't think word order is a
> reliable criteria
> for identifying "translation Greek."

Yes, and that's what I'm saying. The LXX exhibits Semitic word order.
It has seeped into the NT.
What was interesting in the LXX book of Esther is that by using the
method developed by Raymond Martin, and applied by Fox, it could be
statistically and reliably determined that the Additions to the Greek
Esther were not translations of a Semitic original.

Liz
>
> greetings,
>
> Clay
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