Biblical Hebrew Forum

[C L <sigebryht AT yahoo.com>]

Barry,

You may be right. It's hard to say with certainty what the Greek translators were thinking, but the Old Greek/Septuagint is a valuable tool to understanding how the Ancients might have understood their Hebrew Vorlage. I do think caution is merited, of course, for the reasons I mentioned earlier. But bold caution is merited in all scholarship.

Thank you for sharing your insights.

Sincerely,

Chris Lovelace

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From: Barry <nebarry AT verizon.net>
To: C L <sigebryht AT yahoo.com>
Cc: "b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 4:07 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Isaiah 44:24

Thanks for your response. I still think the translator conceptualized these as simple past tenses for the reasons I mentioned before, but for me, a passage like this is a window into the translator's view of the Hebrew, and is invaluable for that reason (and others).

N.E. Barry Hofstetter

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