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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: Joseph Roberts <josephroberts3 AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] one-to-one rendering of olam
  • Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 16:48:48 -0500

I strongly believe that there is no "horizontal" relationship between OLAM and ALUM, 'covered up', in the same way that there is no "horizontal" relationship between LEXEM, solid food', and MI-LXAMAH, 'war, battle, combat', or KESEP, silver', and KIYSUPIM, 'longing'.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Dec 12, 2010, at 2:40 PM, Joseph Roberts wrote:

I have always understood Olam and its counter-part in Greek (aiwn) as being
like something beyond the horizon. to say something is beyond the horizon
does not say that it is a certain distance beyond the horizon it means
beyond what you can see, this could mean forever or a mile beyond the
horizon. I think sometimes in Hebrew and even Greek its better to look at
things more concrete than abstract.

Joseph Roberts

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:

In Gen. 13:15 AD OLAM is 'forever', namely, with no time limit set ––– with
no statute of limitation. The fact that someone builds a house, a shed, a
driveway, a fence, or whatnot, on your land is another issue; it happens
everyday everywhere.
Read again Jeremiah chapter 32, and recall verse 15:

כי כה אמר יהוה צבאות אלהי ישראל עוד יקנו בתים ושדות וכרמים בארץ הזאת

and tell me if he was right, or what.

Isaac Fried, Boston University






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