Biblical Hebrew Forum

["C. Stirling Bartholomew" <jacksonpollock AT earthlink.net>]

On 1/4/05 1:33 PM, "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com> wrote:

> He tries to argue that this is a deeply literary feature of
> biblical writer's style that draws all sorts of necessary connections
> that should not be broken.

Short of absolute concordant translation (which raises more problems than it
solves) the loss of these often very real literary connections is a somewhat
unavoidable side effect of rendering the meaning of an ancient text into a
modern language.

Someone needs to set up a discussion/debate between R.Alter and R. de Blois
on lexical semantics of Biblical Hebrew.



greetings,
Clay Bartholomew