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
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