gennawing males

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Wed Dec 1 21:41:57 EST 1999


At 09:14 PM 12/1/99 -0500, you wrote:

>
>Perhaps we should explore: "You are my son, today I have procreated
>you" or "... today I have brought you forth"  or "... today I have
>engendered you."

"procreated" is a tad cumbersome, it seems to me.  Likewise "brought you
forth" is ambiguous.  "Engendered" suffers from the flaw of being unclear as
well.

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.  Lets be careful not to retroject our own prejudices and
political notions on ancient folk who cant possibly arise from the dead to
defend their choice of language at every turn.

Best,

Jim

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