Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

On 16/11/2005 15:31, Awohili AT aol.com wrote:

> ... 
> It matters not to me if only one group of people in the entire world  
> translate "olam" as "time indefinite."  What should matter to an objective  person is 
> whether or not "time indefinite" is an accurate translation for  "olam." ...

Indeed. And the only way to judge this question, and Rolf agrees with me 
here, is to ask whether the core meaning of `olam coincides with the 
core meaning of "time indefinite". In my opinion it does not, because 
`olam means "eternity" whereas "to time indefinite" does not mean that, 
if it means anything it means "for an unknown time".

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