History #36 ✡ How Was Salkinson's Translation Received By Readers & Scholars?
Messianic History: Return of the Jewish Jesus
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Responses to Isaac Salkinson's translation were extreme. Average Jewish readers favoured it as "more Hebrew" because of its pure Biblical vocabulary. Rabbis, Talmudic scholars, and Hebrew newspaper editors rushed to get a copy and hailed it as "exceedingly good" and "more perfect". Scholars, on the other hand, criticized its paraphrased idiomatic style and branded it a barbarous failure. Dr. Samuel Rolles Driver (of BDB Lexicon fame) provided the most even-handed and respectful analysis, recognizing the strengths of both Salkinson and Delitzsch and comparing them on hundreds of specific points - even listing the places where Salkinson found the "happier and more idiomatic expression". TBC!
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