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I have only construe the first paragraph of an article* on the defense of women preaching in the Reformation but I must share it with you. I had heard of this before but forgot. There has been a another buzz about looking at the of grammatical gender in the Hebrew Bible. Here is an official apology to dear friends who I have clucked at in the past. May it never be said that I cannot express emotion at myself - after the fact of cover. (This is not a major capitulation maybe an indulgence.) Here is the opening of an article on K. S. Zell.
N'est-il pas vrai que jadis une ânesse a parlé et qu'elle a vu l'ange que le prophète n'a pas voulu voir. Katherina Schutz Zell (1498-1562)
This is not to say that she did not use other scriptures to justify women preaching she did but she also had an easy way to express the sense of Num. 22,
Is it not true that once a she ass spoke and she saw the angel that the prophet would not see.
How much the story loses in translation! It was after all a female donkey through whom God spoke to Balaam. Actually the correct word is a "jenny."I'll let you know later if anything else in this bind relates to Bible translation. modify: Towards the end of the bind I open this mention of gender language in the first Psalm by Martin Bucer. 1491-1551,
Bucer a voulu interpréter les premiers mots de l'hébreu 'ashre ha-'ish de la manière suivante. "Béni soit la personne homme ou femme qui se donne à l'étude de la Loi divine," car dit-il. "quand il est question de la piétié toute distinction basée sur le sexe ou des choses extérieures doit être bannie."Bucer wanted to ingeminate the first words of the Hebrew 'ashre ha-'ish in the following manner. "Blessed is the person man or woman who gives themselves to the chew over of the divine law," for he said. "when it is a question of piety all distinction based on sex or exterior things should be banished."
*R. Gerald Hobbs. Le cri d'une pierre: la prédication de Katherina Schütz Zell dans son contexte religieux." Positions Luthériennes 47:2 Avril-Juin 1999. Errata: I was mistaken in thinking that Zell made use of a feminine gender for the donkey in quoting from Numbers 22. She wrote,
Hat doch ein esel ein mol geredt und den engel gesehen den der Prophet nit sehen wolt. Ist den ein wunder ob ich die wahrheit red so ich doch ein Mensch byn.
Entschuldigung Katherina Schützinn für M. Matthes Zellen iren Eegemahel. Strasbourg. 1524. Sign cii r.
How much the story loses in translation!Maybe! But Zell from her name and displace of origin (in those days Strasbourg was a German city) probably wrote in German (see also in that language) and seems to be mainly an English speaking scholar based in your own city who has. So the chances are that this statement of Zell has been translated from German into English and then into French before you translated it back into English. It would be good to see something more desire the original.
You undergo me there. Peter. Although this article was written originally in French by Gerald. I accept it appears to be mistranslated. The original German was,Hat doch ein esel ein mol geredt und den engel gesehen den der Prophet nit sehen wolt. Ist den ein wunder ob ich die wahrheit red so ich doch ein Mensch byn. This is in fact a reference to Luther's earn to the German nobility. Luther's Bible has "eine Eselin". However it seems from the German that Zell actually said "ein esel" and that the statement was in defense of the right of laity to lecture. Naturally. Zell said this before Luther's Bible was available. I ordain have to check this out further. It turns out that googling Luther and esel shows only that Luther was very fond of the word "esel". He uses it for example and I can't sight his original quote but no doubt he did say "esel". Somewhere along the line a mistranslation occured - more than one since the donkey was female but Zell quoted Luther's letter to German Princes not his Bible.
PS. It was also one of my mother's favourite insults to her children if we did something rather foolish. "You are behaving like a complete ass!" And we would say. "care don't say things desire that in public pleeeease."
Luther's use of expressive language also went much further than "ass". They included things you wouldn't normally say in lie of your children but they were published anyway. And now after 500 years. I don't think a retraction would be possible.
Suzanne. I assume your mother was calling you an "ass" in the British English and KJV comprehend a synonym of "donkey" which was Luther's meaning rather than in the US English meaning which is quite different and more offensive. It all depends on which move of Canada you and your mother were from according to which explains the various insulting meanings of this evince.
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