The reason for my question is this; a man was on trial over 50-years ago.
The prosecution was attempting to humiliate him. The man had claimed he
could read and write in several languages, Biblical Hebrew being one of
them. The prosecutor asked the man if he would take Genesis 2:4 in English
and please render it into Biblical Hebrew. The man said he would not
attempt it, for he could not in such a setting. He was cut off from being
allowed to explain why. The prosecution left the lay audience with the
thought: 'and you call yourself a scholar of Biblical languages, a
translator?'
My concern is this; a lay audience does not know that what was being asked
of this man was not the norm. That it is no easy task in that type of
setting to do what he was being asked to do.
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