Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>]

At 01:01 PM 1/5/2005, you wrote:

> Lets take a hypothetical contemporary situation where a woman, an SIL
> person, is translating Genesis into one of the Turkic languages. This woman
> uses all the computer based tools that SIL provides for their translators
> plus commercial products like BibleWorks, etc. This woman knows a little
> Hebrew but she is not a specialist in Semitic languages.
>
> How dependent will she be on ENGLISH versions in her rendering of Genesis
> into the target language?

If English is her primary language- then she will be terribly dependent on 
them- in effect she will be paraphrasing them.  Why? because she does not 
know Hebrew sufficiently to render directly from Hebrew into the receptor 
language.

Jim

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