[gothic-l] Re: Gothic "sa"

[John Frauzel]

At 07:46 AM 10/11/00 +0200, you wrote:

> >-IUSTEINUS
> >
> >
> >In a message dated 10/10/00 4:01:03 AM, you wrote:
> >
> ><<{sa}: demonstrative or article?
> >
> >The Gothic Bible is a translation. With translations, there is a
> tendency for
> >translators to import usages and mannerisms from the original language,
> >particularly if the text is sacred and thus the translator is more than
> usual
> >driven to stick close to the original. For example, various Hebrew-isms of
> >word usage got through from the Hebrew Bible via Greek (Septuagint) and
> Latin
> >(Vulgate) to the King James English Bible.
>
>Is this statement correct?
>I have heard that the King James translation follows Luther's to some extent.
>But Luther translated directly from Hebrew. The question thus is whether
>it is correct to say that the King James translation went by means of
>Septaguint and Vulgate intermediate steps.
>
>If I am not mistaken, the German text that I downloaded from the
><http://unbound.biola.edu/> site was the Luther version:
>
>Genesis 1:1
>  Am Anfang schuf Gott Himmel und Erde.
>
>As you see, there is no article. Why?
>Perhaps because it is natural for the German language not to have it(?)
>
>Another question that I'd like to pose, is why none of the translations
>have translated the little word "aleph-tau" that the Hebrew text has
>in front of ha-shamaim and ha-aretz. I have always assumed that it
>is the "ha" that is the article.

It marks a direct object in Hebrew.



>Keth
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