It’s an Idiom, Idiot! (2)

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Now in those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,  Matthew 3:1  NASB Saying – Yesterday we discovered that the Hebrew expression le ʾmōr is not really a word to be translated.  It is the Hebraic substitution for quotation marks.  Now, when we look at the Greek text of Matthew, we find the…

It’s an Idiom, Idiot! (1)

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,  Genesis 9:8 NASB Saying – Note the same verse translated by Aryeh Kaplan: “God said to Noah and his sons with him.”  [The Living Torah] And by Robert Alter: “And God said to Noah and to his sons with him.”  [The Hebrew Bible]…