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hebrew

The end of “creation” as we know it? I think not.

October 8, 2009

Claude Mariottini passes on the news that:

Professor Ellen Van Wolde, an Old Testament scholar and member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, said that Genesis 1:1 has been translated incorrectly and that a correct translation of the first verse of Genesis negates the view that God is the creator of heavens and earth.

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My first time

July 6, 2009

Somebody arrived (astonishingly) on this blog with a Hebrew search term – עַלְמָ֗ה

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When translations improve the Bible

June 10, 2009

John Hobbins revisits one of his hobby-horses (and one he shares with some others): the inadequacy of translations. He claims to “make three points, the truth of which is impossible to deny” and the first of these is: “All extant translations of the Bible fall short of the glory of the original”.
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