Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 26/09/2005 21:53, Vadim Cherny wrote:

> ...
> Lord God brought forward the man. Dust of the ground blew into his 
> face. The man became a breath of life to a living soul.
> That is, God sent the man to irrigate. The man breathed the dust, and 
> indeed irrigated. By doing that, the man brought a breath of life to 
> all living creatures.
>
> I don't argue 100% for that translation. Exegetically, I love it. 
> Semantically, it seems no worse that the traditional one, also with 
> some problems.


Whatever you may think of it exegetically, it is based on such a total 
misunderstanding of Hebrew syntax that I will simply suggest that you go 
away and learn some elementary Hebrew rather than expect me to correct 
your obvious mistakes.


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