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  • From: George Athas <George.Athas AT moore.edu.au>
  • To: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Greek Translation of Isaiah (was hellenization)
  • Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 04:50:53 +0000

Fred, you are entitled to your opinion, though I suspect that many will
disagree with you about language being unable to capture cultural
conceptuality. Yes, there is always some loss, but this is not complete loss.
It seems you are implying wholesale change of meaning when translation
occurs, perhaps because you are equating culture with language directly. This
may be the way Islam views translation of the Qur’an, but it does so on the
basis of a belief in the divine origin and unalterability of the words,
syllables, and sounds as delivered directly to Muhammad. While Second Temple
Judaism viewed the biblical texts as divine in origin, they evidently had no
insuperable objection to translating them (perhaps because their concept of
divine inspiration was not identical to the way Islam later viewed
inspiration of the Qur’an).

I’m not sure this thread is going to deal with Biblical Hebrew in any
significant way. Let’s give it to the end of Monday and then leave it there.


GEORGE ATHAS
Co-Moderator, B-Hebrew
(Sydney, Australia)






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