From: ben.crick AT argonet.co.uk (Ben and Jo Crick)
To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: RE: Is R)$YT even a "time" word?
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 21:33:31 +0000
On Wed 27 Mar 2002 (10:55:19 +0300), peter_kirk AT sil.org wrote:
> The Vulgate is similarly useful, for Jerome translated from Hebrew with
> the help of Hebrew speakers and so his translation is based on their
> 4th century CE understanding of Hebrew, also well before Rashi. Does anyone
> have the Vulgate text available to check?
>
Here it is, Peter:
INCIPIT LIBER BRESHIT ID EST GENESIS
1 in principio creavit Deus caelum et terram
2 terra autem erat inanis et vacua et tenebrae super faciem abyssi et spiritus
Dei ferebatur super aquas
3 dixitque Deus fiat lux et facta est lux
4 et vidit Deus lucem quod esset bona et divisit lucem ac tenebras
5 appellavitque lucem diem et tenebras noctem factumque est vespere et mane
dies unus
(Genesis 1:15 Biblia Sacra Vulgata)
You will notive the absence of punctuation. Just like legal documents!
And you'll notice all those -que's and et's for the conjunction W:.
The opening of the Gospel of Mark also has an anarthrous ARCH -
ARCH TOU EUAGGELIOU IHSOU CRISTOU, ktl.
Happy Festival to you all,
Ben
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