Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Harold Holmyard <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

A Becker wrote:
> > HH: I don't have the time to study this in depth, but your idea is old,
> > going back to the KJV:
> >
> > Dan. 11:29 At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the
> > south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter.
> >     
>
> I hadn't realized that the KJV had a rendering along the same lines. Shows
> you how much I use the KJV!
>
>   
> > HH: The fact that the modern translations (NIV, NRSV, NET) do not agree
> > with the KJV is reason to suspect that the KJV's interpretation is not
> > correct, though it is possible grammatically.
> >     
>
> I would be curious to know the grammatical considerations for the RSV, JPS
> rendering.
>   

HH: The RSV is like the others. I don't know what the JPS has; I can't 
find that translation online. The idea is that the double Kaph phrasing 
is an idiom meaning something like "as . . . so . . . ."

Yours,
Harold Holmyard