<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 40px/normal 'Arial Hebrew'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; ">Consulting my bookshelf, here are my two cents:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 40px/normal 'Arial Hebrew'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; ">"whale" in modern Ivrith still is "lifyathan" (lamed - vav - yud - thet - nun) </span></div><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 40px/normal 'Arial Hebrew'; ">לויתן</div><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 40px/normal 'Arial Hebrew'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Searching my dictionary for Biblical Hebrew for it yielded the very same word (same, yet vocalized, spelling), translated by "Riesentier Leviathan, Schlange, Krokodil".</span></font></div><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 40px/normal 'Arial Hebrew'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 40px/normal 'Arial Hebrew'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">I'll be trying to retrieve the Hebrew original of that story telling of Jona in the whale/fish.</span></font></div><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 40px/normal 'Arial Hebrew'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 40px/normal 'Arial Hebrew'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Alfred </span></font></div><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 40px/normal 'Arial Hebrew'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 40px/normal 'Arial Hebrew'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><div>Am 24.01.2008 um 05:50 schrieb Rankin, Robert L:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Not being well versed in matters theological, I may be wrong, but I think 'great fish' more closely mirrors the original Hebrew text. I'll have to check into the education of the translator to see if this is an accident or a superior translation.<br><br>Bob<br><br>________________________________<br><br><blockquote type="cite">As a matter of interest, in the OT story of Jonas & the Whale, Buechel's Bible History Stories (1924) merely uses (p.127) : "HOGAN TANKA" [= big fish] for the famous 'whale'.<br></blockquote><br><span><winmail.dat></span></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="BiauKai" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">____________________</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="BiauKai" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="BiauKai" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">狄雨亭 (奧龍)</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="BiauKai" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">宋詩家<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="BiauKai" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">選集</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: BiauKai; font-size: 18px; "> - ❮蝶夢痕❯</span></span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="BiauKai" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div></div><div><a href="http://www.fa-kuan.muc.de">www.fa-kuan.muc.de</a></div></div></span></div></span> </div><br></body></html>