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Starting a series of running notes on the #Pentateuch. Not a full commentary, just thoughts, mostly on issues of composition and translation of the #Bible.
Hope it's useful/interesting, and hoping for engagement: add'l insights from scholars, questions from anyone.
Enjoy!
Hope it's useful/interesting, and hoping for engagement: add'l insights from scholars, questions from anyone.
Enjoy!
#Genesis 1:1
My favorite example of the truism that translation is interpretation: the first three words of the Bible. Believe in creation ex nihilo? "In the beginning God created." Don't believe that? "When God began to create."
My favorite example of the truism that translation is interpretation: the first three words of the Bible. Believe in creation ex nihilo? "In the beginning God created." Don't believe that? "When God began to create."
Which one is correct? Neither is decisively right, though the grammar leans slightly against the famous KJV wording. Elsewhere בראשית is in construct with the following word (Jer 26:1, e.g.); if here too, then it's "In the beginning of God's creating."
1/ The Complutensian Polyglot’s Prologue is filled with fascinating details about the canon. (cf tweet 3)
1 It affirms #Jerome’s Hebrew Veritas or Truth of the Hebrews.
2 It borrows Jerome’s trifarium: Pentateuch, Hagiographa, and Prophets; three divisions in Heb Bib.
1 It affirms #Jerome’s Hebrew Veritas or Truth of the Hebrews.
2 It borrows Jerome’s trifarium: Pentateuch, Hagiographa, and Prophets; three divisions in Heb Bib.
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3 It explains the triple languages that its pages contain: Hebrew, Chaldean (Aramaic), & #Greek each w/Latin translation
4 Only the #Pentateuch will contain Chaldean because of the corrupt state of it in the other books
5 The Chaldean was prepared by experts in this language
3 It explains the triple languages that its pages contain: Hebrew, Chaldean (Aramaic), & #Greek each w/Latin translation
4 Only the #Pentateuch will contain Chaldean because of the corrupt state of it in the other books
5 The Chaldean was prepared by experts in this language
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6 The description of the Greek is twofold: for the books in the Hebrew, the Greek Edition of the Seventy/#Septuagint is used, while for books “outside of the canon” (extra conone), they have only Greek writing—not the Seventy—beside them.
Thus LXX is quite specific here.
6 The description of the Greek is twofold: for the books in the Hebrew, the Greek Edition of the Seventy/#Septuagint is used, while for books “outside of the canon” (extra conone), they have only Greek writing—not the Seventy—beside them.
Thus LXX is quite specific here.
