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  • From: "C. Stirling Bartholomew" <jacksonpollock AT earthlink.net>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Review Alter's translation
  • Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 13:53:04 -0800

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







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