gennawing males

Daniel L Christiansen dlc at multnomah.edu
Thu Dec 2 00:47:03 EST 1999


Jim West wrote [snipped]:

> I realize "fathered" is problematic for us.  But for both the Israelites of
> the Psalm and the Christians of Clement's day, it would have held no
> problems at all.

    And, of course, this is exactly the question at hand . . . Neither the
Christians of Clement's day, nor the Israelites in the day of the Psalmist would
have had any comprehension of "fathered," since it is a term in a language which did
not yet exist.  But, would they have had a problem with a term which denotes a male
parent being "gerunded" as a verb which may denote either/neither gender of
ancestor?  Certainly, GENNAW is used without respect to gender; I suppose I am still
uncertain as to whether we can keep that ambiguity in an English verb, and also hold
onto the personal/familial connotations present in GENNAW.

--
Daniel L. Christiansen
Department of Bible
Multnomah Bible College
8435 NE Glisan Street
Portland, OR  97220
(Also Portland Bible College, Prof of Biblical Languages)
e-mail: dlc at multnomah.edu





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