Best regards,
How would this passage be translated if there were no presuppositions? If
all the yiqtols and waqatals were translated as future, and all the qatals
as past?
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52:13 Look! My servant will act with insight (YIQTOL). He will certainly
highto
(YIQTOL) and elevated (WEQATAL) and exalted (WEQATAL) very much.
52:14 Just as many were appalled (QATAL) at him - so disfigured is his
appearance more than that of any other man, and his form more than that of
mankind -
52:15 likewise he will startle (YIQTOL) many nations. Because of him kings
will shut (YIQTOL) their mouth. For what had not been recounted (QATAL)
them, they saw (QATAL), and to what they had not heard (QATAL)root
they attended (QATAL).
53:1 Who believed (QATAL) our message? And to whom has the arm of JHWH
be revealed (QATAL)?
53:2 He has come up (WAYYIQTOL) before him like a tender shoot, like a
out of dry ground. He does not have a stately form nor any splendor(nominal
cl.). We will see him (WEYIQTOL), but he will not have an appearance thatwe
should desire him (WEQATAL).being crushed
53:3 He is despised (participle) and avoided by men, a man of pain,
who was familiar (passive participle) with sickness. He was like one from
whom men hide their faces, a despised one, who we did not esteem (QATAL).
53:4 Surely, our sicknesses are what he carried (QATAL) , and our pains
are what he bore (QATAL). But as for ourselves, we considered
(QATAL) him as plagued, stricken by God and afflicted.
53:5 Yes, he is being pierced (participle) for our transgressions and is
(participle) for our sins. The punishment meant for our peace is on himhis
(nominal cl.). And because of his wounds we were healed (QATAL).
53:6 Like sheep we wandered about (QATAL), each of us turned (QATAL) to
own way. But YHWH himself let our sin strike him (QATAL).led
53:7 He was oppressed (QATAL) and is afflicted (participle), but he will
not open (YIQTOL) his mouth. like a sheep to the slaughtering he will be
(YIQTOL), and like an ewe before her sheares became mute (QATAL), heof
will not open (YIQTOL) his mouth.
53:8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away (QATAL). But who will
consider (YIQTOL) his decendants when he was cut off (QATAL) from the land
the living? It is because of the transgression of my people that he isgetting
the stroke (nominal cl.).the
53:9 He was assigned (WAYYIQTOL) his grave with the wicked ones, and with
rich in his death, though he had done (QATAL) no violence, and there wasno
deception in his mouth (nominal cl.).guilt
53:10 But YHWH himself took delight (QATAL) in crushing him, and
caused him to suffer (QATAL). When he will give (YIQTOL) his soul as a
offering, he will see (YIQTOL) his offspring and will prolong (YIQTOL) hisdays,
and the delight of YHWH will prosper (YIQTOL) in his hand.satisfied
53:11 After the suffering of his soul he will look (YIQTOL) and will be
(YIQTOL). By his knowledge, the righteous one, my servant, wil justifyand
(YIQTOL) many people, and their sins he himself will bear (YIQTOL).
53:12 For that reason I will give him a portion (YIQTOL) among the many,
with the mighty ones he will divide (YIQTOL) the spoil. Because he hadI used Rolf's translation, but translated the verbs without any
let his soul be poured out (QATAL) to death, and had let himself be
counted (QATAL) among transgressors. He himself carried (QATAL) the sins
of many people, and he will make intercession (YIQTOL) for the
transgressors.
presuppositions, as if it were normal prose, with yiqtols and waqatols
always future, and qatals always past.
The ONLY reason not to do this, as far as I can see, is the desire to
equate the subject with Jesus.
Liz Fried
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