a truism: all translators are traitors in some way because they inevitably betray certain qualities of texts in the process of translation. Subtle nuances, emphases, or even basic meanings are often missed by those who are not fluent in a language. Translation difficulties increase exponentially when a language was part of a culture that existed thousands of years ago. Such is the case with biblical Hebrew. On the other hand, the more proficient we are in a language, the more we understand all the
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