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  • From: "Ian Hutchesson" <mc2499 AT mclink.it>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: bereshit (translations) GfSomsel
  • Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 05:10:23 +0100


>> This is turning your back on evidence and opting for
>> the modern English translation as your argument. This
>> unfortunately is no argument. The reason for what you
>> see in modern English translations is clear and I have
>> already explained it. This has nothing to do with
>> the original text as the Vulgate, LXX, Schlach and
>> Italian translations show you.
>> _
>
>I hardly think this is a just accusation. As I understand Peter, he was
>speaking of the Hebrew when he said "if I see convincing evidence that a
>b-noun time phrase in Hebrew can govern more than one finite clause
>coordinated by w-, then . . ." That he would make a comparison with English

GfSomsel (a simple name might be nice!),

Let me invent a criterion: if I see convincing evidence that
a time phrase such as br'$yt can stand at the beginning of a
book without any qualification, then I might consider it
possible in the case of Gen 1:1, otherwise I will consider the
notion simply unsupportable speculation.

It's not difficult to do this sort of thing.


Ian








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