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RE: Isa 57:8 YD XZYT

From: "Peter Kirk" <Peter_Kirk AT sil.org>
To: "'Brian Sullivan'" <bsullivan AT dingoblue.net.au>, "'Biblical Hebrew'" <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Subject: RE: Isa 57:8 YD XZYT
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 21:16:14 -0000

NRSV has the marginal rendering "you have gazed on their phallus". So
this is a rendering supported by respectable scholars.

Peter Kirk

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Sullivan [mailto:bsullivan AT dingoblue.net.au]
> Sent: 01 March 2002 05:08
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: Isa 57:8 YD XZYT
>
> Dear Members,
>
> discussing the worship practices in Malaci's time the site
> http://www.realtime.net/~wdoud/malachi/mal07.html
>
> claims that the phrase YD XZYT found in Isa 58:7 can be tranlated "you
see
> a
> phallus." The site uses the rendering "YADD CHAZZIT."
>
> Is the above english translation valid?
>
> Yours Most Sincerely,
>
> Brian Sullivan
>
>
>
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RE: Isa 57:8 YD XZYT, Peter Kirk, 03/12/2002
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Isa 57:8 YD XZYT, Polycarp66, 03/12/2002
- SV: Isa 57:8 YD XZYT, Søren Holst, 03/13/2002