Dear Listees, MT Psalm 8 uses two different words for LXX Psalm 8, anthwpos, i.e. ENWWSH and ADAM. Why does this occur? Best regards, Philip Engmann...
Hi Philip-- Because Hebrew has at least three words for "man": ISH - man, male ADAM - man, Adam, earthling ENOSH - mortal man (if I remember correctly) Psalm 8...
Hi Athanasios, Thanks for the good news. I've had friends who've put off buying a new Bible just because they were waiting for the OSB to come out. In anycase,...
... I just wonder if it's REALLY going to be an Orthodox Bible or just another Protestant version with an Orthodox overlay. I mean, the first version not even...
In a message dated 5/12/2007 4:25:28 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, anthony_bryant@... writes: I just wonder if it's REALLY going to be an Orthodox Bible or...
... I'm talking about in the supplementary materials in the end. There were sections of Orthodox daily prayers (the Trisagion, etc.) but no Theotokion. No...
In a message dated 5/13/2007 3:21:29 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, anthony_bryant@... writes: I'm talking about in the supplementary materials in the end....
... There is a disconnect here. This is an ORTHODOX STUDY BIBLE. A Bible for Orthodox to study. It is NOT a Bible for people to study Orthodoxy. An Orthodox...
In a message dated 5/13/2007 5:04:45 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, anthony_bryant@... writes: and the footnotes should address Orthodox understandings of...
... For what it's worth, that wasn't really the aim of the original OSB project. The project was begun before the "Evangelical Orthodox Church" had even been...
Dear all, I tried to post this piece of news a while back but it never did get posted. Anyway, the Psalter is listed in Center for Traditionalist Orthodox...
What exactly does pestilent mean in Psalm 1 in the LXX?Dear all, I am working on a translation of the LXX Psalter as we have it in the Boston version into...
... Literally a person who is loimos is someone who carries a deadly disease. There's a typical Jewish parallel structure here. All three lines say the same...
... A "pestilent" here is someone who like a pestilence. Dictionaries are wonderful things. pestilent definition adj. 1. Tending to cause death; deadly. 2....
Hi Silouan, Thanks for your reply. I have informed my preist that I am doing the translation as part of my persoanl study programme. I am far away from the...
Hi Anthony, Thanks for the input - I was looking for some info on the Greek original which Siloan provided. I did do the dictionary search but wanted to make...
... I'm glad :-) I lived for a while in the Philippines, where the languages are related to Indonesian and Malay. I remember liked the elegant way a word can...
While I'm thinking of it... "Grace for Grace: The Psalter & the Holy Fathers" by Johanna Manley is a great book to have handy when studying the Psalter. For...
Hi Silouan, Thanks for the suggestion.The book has been on my mind for some time but it is very difficult to obtain it in Malaysia. I can generally get most...
... Good point. There are a LOT of shades of nuance in some of the most innocuous words. Since you've done some translation of Biblical texts, you've probably ...
Thanks for the info.! This may just be the "viable alternative" to the HTM Psalter that I (and others) have been hoping for. I look forward to seeing it! ...
Hi Athanasios, It will be good to have an LXX Psalter with traditional English but let's hope that CTOS gets it published in a durable format at an affordable...
... Agreed. I am hoping, too, that they might publish it without Copyright protection. People who want a good hardcover would still buy it, but it would...
The above subject-line may be a bit misleading, since this Psalter won't only be the product of Michael Asser (whose work appeared previously on the ...
Hi Athanasios, I expect the new Psalter to be somehwat different from the work of Michale Asser as there is now a team of scholars working on the Psalter. As...
... It's always expensive and risky for a small publisher to produce a new hardcover book for which there may or may not be demand. You need investors with...
Dear Silouan, You are quite right on the risks involved with hardcover books... And I have noticed that CTOS has begun to publish liturgical books. They now...
