Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

  'All I said was, "That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah."'
   
   The question was how to translate this into biblical Hebrew:
   
   "kol asher amarti: hadag hazeh tov hayah b'eynei elohim"
   
   Not a literal translation, but gives the sense of the original.
   
   The best Hebrew translation of Hamlet , and there were a few
   
  at the time - was done by the poet A. Shlonsky who reputedly did 
   
  not know a word of English.
   
  Now towards the end of second temple days the language was more 
   
  Mishnaic, and the approximate translation:
   
  "Kol sheamarti: dag zeh day tov hayah  lamakom".
   
  See note above; also "hamakom" (ha-maqom)  is one of the divine 
   
  names in late Hebrew; could have been Hakadosh Barukh Hu.
   
   
  Uri Hurwitz                                                        Great 
Neck, NY
   
   
   
  
 

       
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While we're at it. If anyone hasn't seen the scene, it's on youtube.com at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYkbqzWVHZI

Enjoy. :)

Jason Hare
Rehovot, Israel

Yitzhak Sapir wrote:
> On Jan 25, 2008 2:00 PM, Yigal Levin wrote:
>   
>> Nice try, Yitzhak, except that in Mishanaic times they probably would have
>> avoided vocalizing "YHWH".
>>
>> Yigal Levin
>>     
>
> That is part of the scene in Life of Brian, however:
> http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/brian/brian-04.htm
>
> Yitzhak Sapir
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