Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Hayyim:

To start out with, you have over two millennia of tradition that disagrees 
with you.

Of course, it would have been a lot easier had he written W)HBT )T R(K KMWK 
to fit how it is usually translated.

Look at the context! The total verse says, "Don't take revenge nor hound 
those from your people, but you love him as a neighbor, like yourself." where 
"neighbor" is someone close enough that you share meals with him.

Karl W. Randolph.

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From: Bearpecs AT aol.com

> 
> 
> Do we have any Akkadian experts here?
> 
> In John Huehnergard's _A Grammar of Akkadian_, p. 187, he translates  
> "awilam
> $a kima $uati" as "'a man of equal rank (lit., 'a man who is/was like  
> him')".
> 
> 1.  Is this translation of kima generally accepted by Akkadian  scholars, 
> and
> is this use common in Akkadian?
> 
> 2.  If we apply this to the (in)famous W)HBT LR)K KMWK we'ahabta  lere`ekha
> kamokha, would the correct translation be "Love your fellow as your  equal" 
> or
> "Love your fellow of equal rank"?
> 
> Hayyim
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