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Yigal Levin -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of fred burlingame Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 5:56 AM To: B-Hebrew Subject: [b-hebrew] art vs. science Hello all: a. countless permutations exist for assembling the billions of parts that comprised the moon mission. but only one narrow, precise, assembly of those parts yielded a correct & successful mission. http://www.marklarson.com/genecernan/images/cernan_moon.jpg b. likewise, numerous different & competing translations of the masoretic text exist. but agreement as to one correct translation occurs not. http://www.biblestudytools.com/cjb/proverbs/passage.aspx?q=proverbs+12:2-22 and is that the difference between art & science? the former allows the consumer to choose whatever truth suits him. but the latter imposes a single truth on the consumer. Can it be? the art of the masoretic text teaches "choose whatever word meanings suit you; and be happy;" whereas science instructs: "choose carefully and wisely, lest you crash ... and burn." the science of numbers encodes precision; but the art of language achieves but approximation? regards, fred burlingame _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
