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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org, TROELS HANSEN <tkmh AT get2net.dk>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] A question of German...
  • Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 17:52:25 +0100

On 08/05/2005 22:14, Jim West wrote:



TROELS HANSEN wrote:
Now, the author I have forgotten claims that Greek is "Habitus-Sprahe", whereas Hebrew is a "Relations-Pr�dikat-Sprache". Who is he?


Thank you for any help in this case!



Hans, it sounds like something James Barr would say. ...


It sounds to me more like something an anti-Semite would say, in other words a veiled way of saying that what Greeks say is meaningful, but ancient Jews spoke gibberish. It seems also that the problem with the passage quoted in Ezekiel is that whoever is claiming it is gibberish has simply not done the exegetical work required to understand it, but has relied on a misleading translation into old English which not surprisingly sounds like gibberish to modern English readers who are not native speakers - and especially if "justified" is expected to fit into its theological sense as used in the New Testament.

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