To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Psalm 73:1
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 19:17:42 -0500
George and Bill,
I first want to say that I agree completely with the comments on the
translation by
George:
He wrote:
> )aK +oWB L:Yi&:Rf)"L ):eLoHiYM
> L:BfR"Y L"BfB
>
> As literalistic as I can make it the passage goes
>
> Surely good to Israel [is] God
> to pure ones of heart.
>
And I also find agreement on his comments concerning parallel ideas in
Hebrew. There
are a couple of things I would note here. If I am reading my BHS codes
correctly the
word concerning the word L:Yi&Rf)"l "It has been proposed" (prp) lay.f$fr
)l which
would render this word for Israel as "to the straight (one)". If this
reading were
correct and the phrase "to the straight one" were to be put into the
translation
provided by George it would read:
Surely good to *the straight one" [is] God
to pure ones of heart.
Also I would note that verse 2 also seems to be a contrasting parrallel to the
information in verse 1. The second passage goes like this ( I am using the
rosetta.atla-centr Transliteration Codes for this if not the correct set of
transliteration codes for the list ... please help me pick the correct ones):