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  • From: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Job 6:16, was definite article in Isaiah 7:14
  • Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:13:27 -0700

Dear Harold:

I had never heard of this translation before, so I spent some time poking
around their translation and site, and to say that I am underwhelmed is an
understatement.

As I stated before to Isaac, "The bottom line, you can't take just one verse
from a highly poetic
use, where you are not even sure of the root being used, to argue
against the clear meaning of a verb in its other
uses." I would extend that even to allowing for a one time use of a
unique meaning to fit a one time occurance.
Like all other translations I have seen, I do not see this one as a source
of scholarly information on the Hebrew Bible, its social climate nor
language.

Karl W. Randolph.


On 6/19/07, Harold Holmyard <hholmyard3 AT earthlink.net> wrote:

Dear Isaac,

Did you see the NET note, which agrees with the meaning you give the
verb? The NET says:

The verb יִתְעַלֶּם (yit'allem) has been translated "is hid" or "hides
itself." But this does not work easily in the sentence with the
preposition "upon them." Torczyner suggested "pile up" from an Aramaic
root עֲלַם ('alam), and E. Dhorme (Job, 87) defends it without changing
the text, contending that the form we have was chosen for alliterative
value with the prepositional phrase before it.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard



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