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  • From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Alter's translation (Was: Daniel 6:27 (timeindefinite) II)
  • Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:41:41 -0500

Bryan:

Not only is Peter's critique of English legitimate, but the
accuracy to the Hebrew seems to take a back seat to his
philosophical presuppositions.

Looking at the Hebrew, there is no "When" nor "began" in
the first verse, along with an added "then" in the second
verse indicate an ideational viewpoint it looks as if they
were added to make the translation say the same things
as did most ancient creation myths, that started out with a
pre-existing earth that the gods then made order out of
chaos. He left off the definite articles for both "heaven" and
"earth".

The use of "God's breath" looks as a deliberate
anthropomorphism, to make God look like the same
picture from Babylon, as a sort of superman with the
same physical characteristics as a human.

There are other objections as well, but those should
suffice. If that is typical of the rest of his translation, I
wouldn't waste my time with it.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Kirk" <peter AT qaya.org>
>
>
> > “When God began to create heaven and earth, and the earth then
> > was welter and waste and darkness over the deep and God’s breath
> > hovering over the waters, God said, ‘Let there be light’. And
> > there was light.”
>
> ,,,
>
> --
> Peter Kirk
> peter AT qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
> http://www.qaya.org/

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