Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Bob MacDonald <bobmacdonald AT shaw.ca>]

(Sorry Yitzak - I meant that reply to go to the list)

Dear list

How about Greek to Hebrew?

We have a reading of the Psalms in Greek from within a few hundred years of
when they were written and we have Greek psalms in the NT - e.g. the
Magnificat which are clearly based on Hebrew tradition.  Surely there is an
expert poet in koine Greek among us who could render Mary's song into Hebrew
poetry in such a way that we would have pleasure in the connection.

I am not quite ready to try it - but it is tempting :) only because it is
poetry - and that, from the heart of two women (Mary and Hannah), is the
human aspect of the word - whatever people might say about its divine
revelatory aspect.

Bob

Bob MacDonald
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