Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

b-hebrew - Re: [b-hebrew] Translating Ehyeh (Exodus 3:14)

b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Biblical Hebrew Forum

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Translating Ehyeh (Exodus 3:14)
  • Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:55:05 -0500

But this is a Nname - not a phrase connoting action.

Although all the Rabbinic commentaries discourse on what future actions G-d is referring to - hence the reason G-d uses future tense in this Name.

Shoshanna


That may be more information than you wanted. Anyway, the short answer
is that translators often translate the verb in Ex. 3.14 as a present
tense because it is quite common for a yiqtol to represent an action
that occurs in the present (from the perspective of the speaker).




Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page