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RE: [b-hebrew] Review of Alter's Translation

From: "Ken Penner" <pennerkm AT mcmaster.ca>
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Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Review of Alter's Translation
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:10:09 -0400

> (The vernacular vocabulary, according to the Spanish Hebrew
> scholar Angel
> Sáenz-Badillos, must have exceeded the Biblesa lexicon so
> restricted
> that it is hard to believe it could have served all the purposes of
> quotidian existence in a highly developed society.)
>
> Is the vocabulary too restricted for daily life in 6-th
> century BCE?

My favorite example: there is no word in the Bible for "tickle"!

Ken Penner
McMaster/Hebrew

[b-hebrew] Review of Alter's Translation, Bill Rea, 10/26/2004
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- Re: [b-hebrew] Review of Alter's Translation, Christopher V. Kimball, 10/27/2004
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Review of Alter's Translation, Peter Kirk, 10/27/2004
    - Re: [b-hebrew] Review of Alter's Translation, Uri Hurwitz, 10/27/2004
  - RE: [b-hebrew] Review of Alter's Translation, Ken Penner, 10/27/2004
- Fwd: Re: [b-hebrew] Review of Alter's Translation, Uri Hurwitz, 10/27/2004