Biblical Hebrew Forum

[kenneth greifer <greifer AT hotmail.com>]

Pere,
 
It isn't vital to me that the word in Psalm 22:25 mean "answering" instead of 
"affliction". I just thought it was a possibility. I think it is also 
possible that the Septuagint and other translations could have guesses about 
a lot of words and quotes, especially the Psalms since they were translated 
into Greek about a thousand years later. That is a pretty long time to pass 
down meanings of words that are only used once in the Hebrew Bible. I guess I 
like to look for mistakes that  have been accepted as correct for thousands 
of years and this is just one of many quotes that I have looked at.
 
Kenneth Greifer
 


Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:18:54 +0200
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Psalm 22 answering quotes
From: pporta7 AT gmail.com
To: greifer AT hotmail.com
CC: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org


Dear Kenneth,
 
I'm not claiming that statistics make a proof. They are guides; they show the 
main lines....  but exceptions exist, of course. 
 
In cases like this one of Ps 22:25 it is good to compare with LXX (do you 
know Greek?) or with the Latin Vulgate, for instance, in order to verify how 
ancient translators understood a given text (word, sentence...). This can be 
often (not always) helpful. 
 
 
Pere Porta
(Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)