Biblical Hebrew Forum

[kgraham0938 AT comcast.net]

$IL:X cam also mean weapon.  So I get...

None of us removed our garments, each man, his weapon, the water.

So I guess you'd have to smooth it out a bit.

None of us removed our garments, but each man had his weapon even going to 
the water. (maybe for drinking or using the bathroom.)

--
Kelton Graham
KGRAHAM0938 AT comcast.net


> 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.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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