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[b-hebrew] Syntax of Jeremiah 15:12

From: "Heard, Christopher" <Christopher.Heard AT pepperdine.edu>
To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [b-hebrew] Syntax of Jeremiah 15:12
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:42:46 -0800

Hello list,

I am having difficulty reading Jeremiah 15:12.

UNICODE TEXT
הֲיָרֹעַ בַּרְזֶל בַּרְזֶל מִצָּפוֹן ןּנְחֹשֶׁת

ASCII TEXT
H:AYFROA( BARZEL BARZEL MICCFPWN WN:XO$ET

Three contemporary commercial translations give three quite different
renderings:
NRSV Can iron and bronze break iron from the north?
NIV Can a man break iron--iron from the north--or bronze?
JPS Can iron break iron and bronze?

It's clear what each translation is doing ... But it's not clear to me which
one, if any of these, is correct, and why. Your thoughts?

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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[b-hebrew] Syntax of Jeremiah 15:12, Heard, Christopher, 01/04/2005
- Re: [b-hebrew] Syntax of Jeremiah 15:12, Harold R. Holmyard III, 01/04/2005
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Syntax of Jeremiah 15:12, Heard, Christopher, 01/04/2005
    - Re: [b-hebrew] Syntax of Jeremiah 15:12, Jim West, 01/04/2005
    - Re: [b-hebrew] Syntax of Jeremiah 15:12, C. Stirling Bartholomew, 01/04/2005
      - Re: [b-hebrew] Syntax of Jeremiah 15:12, C. Stirling Bartholomew, 01/04/2005
      - Re: [b-hebrew] Syntax of Jeremiah 15:12, Harold R. Holmyard III, 01/04/2005
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] Syntax of Jeremiah 15:12, C. Stirling Bartholomew, 01/04/2005
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [b-hebrew] Syntax of Jeremiah 15:12, Darrell Smith, 01/04/2005
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Syntax of Jeremiah 15:12, Harold R. Holmyard III, 01/04/2005
- Re: [b-hebrew] Syntax of Jeremiah 15:12, Karl Randolph, 01/04/2005