Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 13:31:52 +0900 (JST)
Subject: RE: FW: Self-evidently so ...




I think all translations are radical mistranslations; I have been trying
desperately for example to undertand Japanese kanji, as well as grammar;
while translations cam be given _around_ a phrase, the phrase itself
cannot be translated, except by such a circumscription. In Hebrew, there
is a biblical tense, and biblical formations which translate awkwardly
into the linear time-frame of english (I imagine german in the same
relationship). The very name of god, as a particulation of "be," is awk-
ward in such a bridging.

Alan

On Sat, 30 May 1998, RTG/DAG wrote:

> Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 20:25:05 -0700
> From: RTG/DAG <guevara-AT-rain.org>
> Reply-To: heidegger-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
> To: heidegger-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
> Subject: RE: FW: Self-evidently so ...
> 
> Allen writes:
> <<<<<
> [...]
> At that point I would probably  insist that the most originary historical
> meaning-saying of the word God in our tradition is in Hebrew; and so we
> should look to the meaning-saying of the Hebrew name for God ( Eheyeh asher
> Ehyeh (usually mistranslated, I think, as " I am that I am," in Exodus  as
> the next step in our questioning.
> [...]
> >>>>>
> 
> hi allen.  thank you for your excellent contributions.  in fact i'd like
> thank everyone for the wonderful input.
> 
> can you say more about your thoughts concerning a possible mistranslation?
> 
> all the best--
> 
> 
> 
> Robert T. Guevara   | guevara-AT-rain.org
> Electrical Engineer | guevarb-AT-mugu.navy.mil
> Camarillo CA, USA   | http://www.rain.org/~guevara
> 
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