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  • From: Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] That piece of halibut was good enough for YHWH
  • Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:00:35 +0200

Nice try, Yitzhak, except that in Mishanaic times they probably would have avoided vocalizing "YHWH".

Yigal Levin


----- Original Message ----- From: "Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
To: "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] That piece of halibut was good enough for YHWH


On Jan 25, 2008 4:59 AM, Jane Peters wrote:
Hi there!

My friends and I were discussing how we would translate a famous line
from Monty Python's 'Life of Brian' into biblical Hebrew.

The line was:
'All I said was, "That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah."'

(Actually, the exact line is "All I said *to my wife* was ...", but we were making
it more generally applicable.)

Your Hebrew translation doesn't really translate that sentence. The
question has to
be asked: why Biblical Hebrew? During the time of Jesus, a form of
Mishnaic Hebrew as
well as Aramaic and Greek were spoken.

In any case, I think the following would have passed for Mishnaic
Hebrew, but I'm not sure:
rak ?amarti $e?oto dag dayyo haya liyahweh.
I only said that that fish was enough for Yahweh.

Yitzhak Sapir
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