The benefits of fluent reading in Hebrew poetry
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Biblingo's Joseph Justiss illustrates how reading Hebrew fluently opens up a whole new world of appreciation for Biblical poetry.
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Referenced resources:
Lurking Lions and Hidden Herds: Concealed Wisdom in the Hebrew Bible
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Yes! Joseph, you are the man!
So cool!
*ἡ παρονομασία* from Ancient Greek, *LSJ tells us* "play upon words which sound alike; use of a word first in its proper (use), then in a derived sense; derivative.
These higher criticism ideas are so destructive to new students of the Bible. So many students were deceived by the so-called scholars and their Documentary hypothesis - which postulated that the Pentateuch is a compilation of four originally independent documents: the Jahwist (J), Elohist (E), Deuteronomist (D), and Priestly (P) sources. Now debunked by people like:
Umberto Cassuto - The Documentary Hypothesis: and the Composition of the Pentateuch Eight Lectures, 2016
I don't understand the infatuation with the Septuagint or old Greek translations of the Hebrew scriptures. Do we really want 151 psalms or a short version of Jeremiah (roughly one-eighth shorter) ?
A Long winded way of saying, I would not trust the old Greek texts or any translation for that matter, and their shifting / moving around of passages.