Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Review of Alter's Translation
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:10:09 -0400
> (The vernacular vocabulary, according to the Spanish Hebrew
> scholar Angel
> Sáenz-Badillos, must have exceeded the Biblesa lexicon so
> restricted
> that it is hard to believe it could have served all the purposes of
> quotidian existence in a highly developed society.)
>
> Is the vocabulary too restricted for daily life in 6-th
> century BCE?
My favorite example: there is no word in the Bible for "tickle"!