Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>]

On 8/19/07, Charles Meadows wrote:
> Is anyone here familiar with the Hebrew NT translated from Greek by
> Franz Delitzsch?  I bought one and have been reading through it.  My
> knowledge of modern Hebrew is limited and I'm not sure whether he
> intended this to be a "modern" translation or more of a "biblical
> hebrew" translation.  I guess he did the work in the late 1800s so it could
> not be a truly "modern" translation.  Any thoughts?

I would stay away from anything from the 1800s except as context for
more recent research.  Thus, in researching the word pitgam, I went
back to articles from the 1860's on the issue, but it was only to
understand where more recent articles came from.

Yitzhak Sapir