Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Robert Newman" <rob AT designceramics.co.uk>]

Peter to Rolf
Well, why did the NWT translators always render nephesh and `olam for 
example with the same English word, when these Hebrew words have a wide 
range of meaning?

If I may inteject, this is not correct, NWT uses one word for each concept AS 
FAR AS THE CONTEXT PERMITS. 
Olam is NOT always translated "time/s indefinite". While I have not made a 
full analysis I can tell you that in those examples I gave where olam refers 
back to past periods it is rendered by "long ago" and the like. As long as 
you insist it only means 'forever' your translation would be the one that is 
misleadingly consistant.
Robert Newman