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  • From: "Heard, Christopher" <Christopher.Heard AT pepperdine.edu>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] logograms--an ode to Hebrew
  • Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 19:47:19 -0800

On 12/24/04 5:56 PM, "Revdpickrel AT wmconnect.com" <Revdpickrel AT wmconnect.com>
wrote:
> Peter, I am well aware of the Targums (oral tradition).

Doug, if you are well aware of the Targums, then you should know that they
are Aramaic paraphrases/translations* of the Hebrew Bible, not oral
traditions.

*I do not wish to reignite the "what is a paraphrase" argument.

Chris
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R. Christopher Heard
Assistant Professor of Religion
Armstrong Fellow in Religion
Pepperdine University
http://faculty.pepperdine.edu/cheard
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http://www.semioticsandexegesis.info






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