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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: Eduard C Hanganu <eddhanganu AT hotmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Relevance Theory & Hebrew Semantics
  • Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:22:12 +0100

On 19/08/2004 03:40, Eduard C Hanganu wrote:


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You mention Isaiah 28:10,13 as an example of a "deliberately nonsensical passage." How did you reach such a conclusion? In most English translations this passage makes rather good sense, the way I understand it. What is your reading of this text?


It is a common interpretation of the words quoted here: CAW LFCFW CAW LFCFW QAV LFQFW QAW LFQFW that they are in v.10 a representation of the speakers' incomprehensible mutterings, a bit like "rhubarb, rhubarb" in English, and that the point of v.13 (cf. v.11) is that their foreign conquerors' speech will be similarly incomprehensible.

For support, see for example JPS Tanakh "mutter upon mutter, murmur upon murmur", and BDB s.v. QAW "mimicry of Isaiah's words, perh. senseless". I have seen more elsewhere but I can't find it now.


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