Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] That piece of halibut was good enough for YHWH
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:20:57 +0000
On Jan 25, 2008 4:59 AM, Jane Peters wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> My friends and I were discussing how we would translate a famous line
> from Monty Python's 'Life of Brian' into biblical Hebrew.
>
> The line was:
> 'All I said was, "That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah."'
>
> (Actually, the exact line is "All I said *to my wife* was ...", but we
> were making
> it more generally applicable.)
Your Hebrew translation doesn't really translate that sentence. The
question has to
be asked: why Biblical Hebrew? During the time of Jesus, a form of
Mishnaic Hebrew as
well as Aramaic and Greek were spoken.
In any case, I think the following would have passed for Mishnaic
Hebrew, but I'm not sure:
rak ?amarti $e?oto dag dayyo haya liyahweh.
I only said that that fish was enough for Yahweh.
Yitzhak Sapir
Re: [b-hebrew] That piece of halibut was good enough for YHWH,
Yitzhak Sapir, 01/25/2008