Biblical Hebrew Forum

[fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>]

Ted:

A house can survive removal of its kitchen and addition of a second dining
room; but it continues as the same house .... not.

Likewise, the rabbis may well have so responded to Christ had He preached
to, and attempted to reason with, them, via Isaiah 61:1 greek text (altered
from the original hebrew).

Or to put it another way, if your family and business colleagues began to
address you with the spanish or german or french translation of your name,
you would probably protest because such cultural change reflects whom you
are ... not.

Regards,

fred burlingame

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 9:33 PM, <TedBro AT aol.com> wrote:

>  Fred:
>
> As regards b. below, "cannot survive" is probably an overstatement.
> Obviously some aspects of a culture "survive" translation and other aspects
> are altered.
>
> -t.
>
>  In a message dated 10/17/2010 7:36:44 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> tensorpath AT gmail.com writes:
>
> Hello Ted:
>
> I am hebrew language expert .... not.
>
> I think however, if you conferred with any torah scholar, they would
> swiftly confirm to you that:
>
> a. the ancient hebrew language expressed in torah, comprises a wide, broad
> and deep cultural heritage, over and beyond any theological considerations;
> and
>
> b. such cultural fabric woven into, and expressed by, hebrew torah, cannot,
> and does not, survive migration into another language, via translation.
>
> Regards,
>
> fred burlingame
>
>