Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Translation
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 02:44:12 -0500
Hey! That was me, not Peter! :-) I have to take all the credit I can get.
Peter was talking about long noses, not "breathers."
sleepy also,
Tim Phillips
Irene Riegner wrote:
> Peter Kirk
>
> I concur. In fact I am writing a paper on Yhvh's anger and the
> metaphoric use of xrh, xrwn, hmh and )p and I have come up with similar
> translations.
>
> It's too late---or too early in the morning---for a detailed discourse,
> but a phrase like xmh w)p, which is frequently translated as a hendiady,
> rage and fury (NRSV or NJPS), seems to indicate that the anger is
> connected to the nose---"breather" as Peter Kirk suggested---or that it
> is breath that exits through the nose. Ps 78.38: In the rage of his
> nose/breather---bhrwn )pw.
> The anger that comes out is frequently poured, $pk or ntk, suggesting a
> liquid rather than vapor.
>
> irene riegner