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Re: [b-hebrew] ur-textual possibilities between MT and LXX onPsa. 2:12

From: c stirling bartholomew <cc.constantine AT worldnet.att.net>
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Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] ur-textual possibilities between MT and LXX onPsa. 2:12
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 13:20:40 -0700

on 5/28/03 12:09 PM, Peter Kirk wrote:

> Apparently some modern translators consider commands to kiss inappropriate
> for modern contexts and so censor them out of modern translations. Why
> couldn't the LXX translators have done something similar ...

Peter,

"Why not" questions are not a form of evidence.

So do you think "grabbing someone by the nap of the neck" or "laying hands
on someone" would be a good way to the potential embarrassing implications
of kissing? But DRASSOMAI in relation to persons depicts an action which is
more disturbing than kissing.

DRASSOMAI could possibly be used in the sense of grasping the knees in
supplication but we have no instances of such use in the LXX. Might be able
to dig up an example from the Classical authors, but it will not prove your
case in Psalm 2:12.

Like I said, it won't fly.

cheers, Clay

--
Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
Three Tree Point
P.O. Box 255 Seahurst WA 98062

[b-hebrew] ur-textual possibilities between MT and LXX on Psa. 2:12, Deborah Millier, 05/27/2003
- Re: [b-hebrew] ur-textual possibilities between MT and LXX on Psa. 2:12, c stirling bartholomew, 05/27/2003
  - RE: [b-hebrew] ur-textual possibilities between MT and LXX onPsa. 2:12, Peter Kirk, 05/27/2003
    - Re: [b-hebrew] ur-textual possibilities between MT and LXX onPsa. 2:12, c stirling bartholomew, 05/28/2003
      - RE: [b-hebrew] ur-textual possibilities between MT and LXX onPsa. 2:12, Peter Kirk, 05/28/2003
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] ur-textual possibilities between MT and LXX onPsa. 2:12, c stirling bartholomew, 05/28/2003
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] ur-textual possibilities between MT and LXX onPsa. 2:12, c stirling bartholomew, 05/28/2003
        
        RE: [b-hebrew] ur-textual possibilities between MT and LXX onPsa. 2:12, Peter Kirk, 05/28/2003
        Re: [b-hebrew] ur-textual possibilities between MT and LXX onPsa. 2:12, c stirling bartholomew, 05/28/2003
        RE: [b-hebrew] ur-textual possibilities between MT and LXX onPsa. 2:12, Peter Kirk, 05/29/2003
        
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        Re: [b-hebrew] Homonyms, Kirk Lowery, 05/30/2003
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