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  • From: "Rolf Furuli" <furuli AT online.no>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] NIV v' NWT translation policy
  • Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 06:17:36 -0000

Dear Peter,

I have said that translators of a literal translation choose one English word for each Hebrew word whenever possible, and that this is possible in less than 10 percent of the Hebrew words.


Best regards

Rolf Furuli

----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Kirk" <peter AT qaya.org>
To: "Robert Newman" <rob AT designceramics.co.uk>
Cc: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 12:38 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] NIV v' NWT translation policy


On 17/11/2005 23:58, Robert Newman wrote:

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". ...


Well, thank you for the correction, but Rolf must have misled us because
I am almost certain that he said that these renderings are entirely
consistent (one word for each word, NOT one word for each concept!)
regardless of the context.

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Peter Kirk
peter AT qaya.org (personal)
peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
http://www.qaya.org/

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