Re: translation

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 17 1999 - 20:21:14 EST


<x-rich>At 12:15 AM -0600 11/17/99, Mitchell Gray wrote:

<excerpt>Dear list-members,

How would you translate the following:

kurios ektisen me archn odwn autou eis erga autou

By the way, this is Prov. 8:22 in the LXX.

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Interesting, in that this differs considerably from the MT. I would
read this as "The Lord created me as the source/beginning of his ways
to his works/deeds." I think it is "Wisdom" (HOKHMA) that is speaking
here, isn't it?

Carl W. Conrad

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