Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

Harold,

Thank you for pointing this translation out to me. I looked it up and  
Indeed Job 16:6 is translated as "They are dark because of ice; snow  
is piled up over them".  Now that yit’allem is behind us we can start  
thinking what HA-QODRIYM MINI QARAX means. I don't think it is "They  
are dark because of ice". I fail to see how HA-QODRIYM can mean  
"They  are dark" and how something can be dark because of ice. I  
think that reference here is not to water but to the snow capped  
mountains of East Africa being the source of melt ice water springs.
While at it, I also looked up Genesis 2:17 which they translate "but  
you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for  
when you eat from it you will surely die". I wish they would leave  
out this superfluous and outright annoying word "surely".

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Jun 19, 2007, at 4:11 PM, Harold Holmyard wrote:

> Dear Isaac,
> > No I have not. What is this "NET" ?
>
> HH: The NET is a recent Bible translation done by professors at Dallas
> Theological Seminary. It is online and includes a great deal of
> translation notes:
>
> http://www.bible.org/netbible/index.htm
>
> > I do not understand why Torczyner [Tur-Sinai] need to go to Aramaic
> > for something as obvious as this.
>
> HH: I don't see why you say it is obvious. You seem to have a lot of
> notions that I have not seen reflected in thinking elsewhere. The  
> entire
> notion bi-literal verbal roots is theoretical, as far as I know.
>
> Yours,
> Harold Holmyard
>
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