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  • From: "Stoney Breyer" <stoneyb AT touchwoodcreative.com>
  • To: <JimStinehart AT aol.com>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] TITHING
  • Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:54:28 -0600


Jim -

I think in the passage below you're seeing an error where none exists.
The English word "tithe" originally means "a tenth" or "to dedicate a
tenth". In non-scriptural usage the latter sense has broadened to mean
simply "to dedicate" - if I drop five bucks in the Sunday collection
plate I may self-complacently refer to this as "tithing" - but certainly
in a translation "tithe" would have its original force

A salutary reminder to us all that sound translation depends at least as
much on mastery of the target language as on mastery of the source.

Stoney Breyer
Writer / Touchwood








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