Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 13/09/2005 17:08, Vadim Cherny wrote:

> > This is not what LXX means. ὤν WN (omega-nu) is simply the present
> > participle of EIMI "to be". So Ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ ὤν EGO EIMI hO WN simply means
> > "I am the being one", or, as Greek participles are commonly equivalent
> > to English (and presumably Hebrew) relative clauses, "I am who I am".
> > This is of course rather good evidence that the Hebrew probably means "I
> > am who I am", and is certainly evidence for a present tense
> > interpretation of the Hebrew.
> >
> >    
>
> Using LXX, a garbled translation, for interpreting minute details of the
> Hebrew text? Seems kind of odd to me. At the maximum, LXX evidences how a
> particular translator or a group wanted to understand or present to Greeks
> the text at the period. Not really a firm evidence; you wouldn't take even
> Rashi views for granted; why take the LXX translators'?
>
> Vadim Cherny
>
>  
I don't take LXX as authoritative or perfect. However, it does here seem 
to indicate how one particular group of readers at one time understood 
the Hebrew. It seems unlikely here that they were using a different text.


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