Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Matanya Ophee <m.ophee AT orphee.com>]

At 11:31 AM 9/13/2005, Vadim Cherny <VadimCherny AT mail.ru> wrote:

> > Response: Well, don't you think that a translation should make sense?
> Even though I understand your point of grammar, I don't think one can do
> proper translation without context.
> >
>
> One could twist the grammar only if standard reading is meaningless, not if
> he doesn't like the meaning. Translating from context means understanding
> the context, actually - interpreting the context. Thus certain translators
> slip into exegesis.

Except that many interpretations are only based on the textual 
context involved, and not on the cultural context of the people who 
wrote this text in the first place, and the audience for which it was 
written, 12 tribes of mostly nomadic shepherds with rudimentary 
agriculture and city life, busy fighting each other and their 
immediate neighbors.



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