[B-Greek] LXX: ESAIAS 65:20
Justin Buol
vonbuol at gmail.com
Thu Mar 24 15:58:04 EST 2005
If you read KAI as adverbial, how is the adverbial functioning?
Because if we then read it as Silva's alternative translation, "the
sinner who dies a hundred years old will also be accursed," what is
'also' relating to? Also in regards to what else?
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:41:32 -0500, Albert Pietersma
<albert.pietersma at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> As for the main question you raise—no, I don't see how one could make
> the Greek mean what the Hebrew is thought to mean (see for example
> NRSV). What happened is that ESA translated the participle of Hebrew
> ChT) (''to sin") according to its stock meaning "to sin," that is,
> "to miss the mark" in a religious or moral sense. Not surprisingly,
> that mistake causes some semantic problems, which ESA tries to
> ameliorate in two ways: (1) by setting up a contrast with what precedes
> (see DE), and (2) by slipping in KAI (which has no formal basis in the
> Hebrew. The resultant sense would seem to be that whereas one hundred
> will be considered young (for pious people?), for the sinner to die at
> a hundred will constitute a curse. Whether to read KAI as a conjunction
> or as an adverbial gives rise to Silva's alternative renderings.
> Personally, I tend to favour reading it as an adverbial.
> Al
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