Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter.r.kirk AT ntlworld.com>]

On 18/08/2003 17:06, Deborah Millier wrote:

> In Rahlfs' edition of the LXX, the OG says KETEI (1:17
> = 2:1) and KETOUS (2:2) (i.e. whale or large sea
> creature), with both nouns being *neuter*.  Hmmmm,
> looks like the Hebrew ur-text(s) recorded no gender
> differences (i.e. DAG, DAG, or DAGAH, DAGAH), or that
> there has been some harmonizing going on.  Or that the
> "discrepancy" didn't bother those who translated
> Yonah's story into Greek.
>
> -- Michael Millier
>
>
>  
Surely the latter is more likely. At least I don't like to even 
speculate that a translation implies a different underlying text when 
the translation (as also all modern English ones!) is a perfectly 
acceptable translation of the MT as it stands. And there is no 
correlation between gender in Greek and gender in Hebrew, except in most 
(not all e.g. PAIDION, QUGATRION) cases for obvious male/female differences.

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