> In my view the cardinal )xd serves as ordinal (the
> ordinal for 'first'
> varies extremely in all semitic languages, in sharp
> contrast with the
> toher ordinals and the rather fixed mode of the
> cardinals).
Would you therefore allow for this translation of the
Shema, taking )xd here as ordinal even though )xd
lacks the defininte article:
Listen, Israel: As for the Lord your God, the Lord is
first.
But how would be understand "first"?
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Waldo Slusher
Calgary, AB
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