To: "b-hebrew list" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [b-hebrew] god of the strong (Dan 11:38)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 20:16:40 +0100
Hello!
Could someone tell me why the RSV and a number of other versions
(including the old JPS) translates m`zym in Dan 11:38 as fortresses?
I note in the following verse the phrase mbcry m`zym means "strong
holds" (= fortresses) and one can see the thought process of passing
from "strong" to "strong hold", but why translate m`zym as fortresses?
Neither the LXX and the Vulgate even translate it, merely
transliterating, perhaps indicating the thought that it is a name to them.