[sword-devel] clean bible or bad phantasy?

Daniel Russell sword-devel@crosswire.org
Tue, 03 Dec 2002 10:34:13 -0800


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>1. I never have heard about different word break variant in Hebrew Bible. The 
>Original is with word breaks. Not sure whether it was intention of God that we 
>would rearrange the given by Him word breaks, however one should try and check 
>whether the resulting texts are meaningless and not false.
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The original was without word breaks as a matter of fact. Hebrew was 
written without word breaks generally, like all other forms of 
punctuation, excepting the occassional bold "font" for emphasis, 
particularly on pronouns.