Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Relevance Theory & Hebrew Semantics
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 13:23:57 -0500
Peter:
But when we look at the Hebrew meanings of the words, in their context
indicates that there were people for whom Gods law, which was far more than
just the law itself, is just a list of dos and donts, getting down into
minutiae. This is no blah blah blah, just a description of how they treat
Torah.
Karl W. Randolph.
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
> On 19/08/2004 03:40, Eduard C Hanganu wrote:
>
> >
> > ...
> >
> > You mention Isaiah 28:10,13 as an example of a "deliberately
> > nonsensical passage." How did you reach such a conclusion? In most
> > English translations this passage makes rather good sense, the way I
> > understand it. What is your reading of this text?
>
>
> It is a common interpretation of the words quoted here: CAW LFCFW CAW
> LFCFW QAV LFQFW QAW LFQFW that they are in v.10 a representation of the
> speakers' incomprehensible mutterings, a bit like "rhubarb, rhubarb" in
> English, and that the point of v.13 (cf. v.11) is that their foreign
> conquerors' speech will be similarly incomprehensible.
>
> For support, see for example JPS Tanakh "mutter upon mutter, murmur upon
> murmur", and BDB s.v. QAW "mimicry of Isaiah's words, perh. senseless".
> I have seen more elsewhere but I can't find it now.
>
>
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> Peter Kirk
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