Origen's Hexapla as a trigger for Greek idioms

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IzzyCohen
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Origen's Hexapla as a trigger for Greek idioms

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The second column of Origen's Hexapla
http://jts.oxfordjournals.org/content/XXI/1/17.extract
is the Old Testament in the Hebrew language written with Greek letters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexapla
http://tetragrammaton.org/tetrapdxj.html

According to W. E. Staples
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/5 ... 3734071451
this 2nd column was actually written for the benefit of readers who understood Hebrew but used the Greek alphabet and could not read the Hebrew alphabet. Therefore, words in the 2nd column often lacked vowels that would be expected by a non-Jewish Greek reader. 

Most ancient readers of this "second column" understood Greek and would occasionally see a Hebrew word or phrase whose transliteration had a very different meaning as a Greek word or phrase. If there was some humorous connection or if the Hebrew meaning was one that should not be said publicly in Greek, the Greek word or phrase that sounded like the Hebrew source could become a Greek idiom that had the meaning of the Hebrew source.

Readers who understand Greek and biblical Hebrew can reconstruct the 2nd column for the missing portions of Origen's Hexapla to look for Greek phrases that have become Greek idioms with the meaning of the Hebrew source. Some of these may have become translated into other languages (including English) as idioms that retain the meaning of the Hebrew source.

I found several patterns for idiom formation via PSM. They are described in these files that can be downloaded from my Dropbox. 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fumbk24u75diq ... .docx?dl=0 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sqbbsipjovkih ... .docx?dl=0 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1yjf8qt99foi6 ... .docx?dl=0 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rbnl93o8tobmv ... .pptx?dl=0 

With the exception of the image in the SoundChangeHandOut, you may treat all of this material as public domain and may forward any or all of it to anyone you think would want to receive it.

Best regards,
Israel "izzy" Cohen
cohen.izzy@gmail.com
Barry Hofstetter
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Re: Origen's Hexapla as a trigger for Greek idioms

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I apologize for approving this post. Your "materials" are utter and complete nonsense, and have nothing to do with any linguistic reality whatsoever. And no, no Greek idioms came from Origen's transliteration of the Hebrew.
N.E. Barry Hofstetter, M.A., Th.M.
Ph.D. Student U of FL
Instructor of Latin
Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy
καὶ σὺ τὸ σὸν ποιήσεις κἀγὼ τὸ ἐμόν. ἆρον τὸ σὸν καὶ ὕπαγε.
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