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Category Archives: Translation
Of Bears & Fools (Proverbs 21.17)
Pr 17 12 A study of the puzzling mis-translation of Proverbs 17.12 and a suggested rendering.
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Whose Story is It? Genesis 44 in NLT
Gn 44 – whose story This paper presents a textlinguistic analysis of the Hebrew text of Gn 44.1-13, and then compares the results of this to the same verses in the New Living Translation (first edition) in order to ask … Continue reading
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Answer Key to Learning & Reading Biblical Hebrew, chs. 1-18
Textbook Answer Key, chs. 1-18 : An answer key to the first eighteen chapters of Learning & Reading Biblical Hebrew (unpublished).
A New Grammar of Biblical Hebrew (pre-publication version)
Learning & Reading Biblical Hebrew This file contains the complete text (pdf) of a pre-publication version of A New Grammar of Biblical Hebrew, now published by Sheffield Phoenix (2010).
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In a Pig’s Nose!
Pr 11 22 – Frozen Renderings The traditional (and unanimous) renderings of Proverbs 11.22 are misleading, suggesting that the deficiency lies in the woman’s ability to discern error; examining the Hebrew text reveals that she is willfully ignorant, rejecting opportunities … Continue reading
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