Re: Babel in the east or not?
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 16, 1998, 19:30 |
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taliesin the storyteller wrote:
> Which is right? Going towards the east or going away from
> the east?
The King James version is by intention a direct translation of the
Hebrew, which I do not read, but the Vulgate seems unambiguous:
"de oriente invenerunt" = "they traveled *from* the east".
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John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)