This sounds a great idea in theory but how far do you take it? Idioms
from the original often just don't communicate properly. I guess )FP
taken alone doesn't mean "anger" any more than it means "face", and
)EREK )APPAYIM is just an idiom... but would you really translate (in
Exodus 34:6 etc) that YHWH has a long nose?! :-)
Peter Kirk
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Subject: Re: Translation
Author: tiphillips AT infoave.net at internet
Date: 28/10/1998 11:17
This has been my problem with (English) translations, and also Fox but to a
lesser extent. I would like to see the Tanak presented as the non-English,
non-Western document(s) it/they are. Idioms say a lot of how the writers and
their culture thought. They should be retained as much as possible. That's
why I began working on my own translation again. Won't be perfect, maybe not
"flowing verse" but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Fox still makes
too many accommodations.