You Know You're Hooked on Slash when....
Jul. 15th, 2005 02:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwendolyngraceReading an article as part of a lit review for a grant application, I came across this:
The root word het' appears 595 times in the Hebrew Bible, more than four times more often than its nearest synonym. While this word is usually translated into English simply as "sin," its oldest meaning--a meaning that has parallels in other ancient Near Eastern cultures--is to "miss the mark," like an archer who takes aim at a target and misses it, or a traveler who misses the correct turn. Het' is also used to describe breaches of social ethics, as when someone misses an opportunity to assist another.
Yeah. I know that's not what the author means, but I totally went there.
The root word het' appears 595 times in the Hebrew Bible, more than four times more often than its nearest synonym. While this word is usually translated into English simply as "sin," its oldest meaning--a meaning that has parallels in other ancient Near Eastern cultures--is to "miss the mark," like an archer who takes aim at a target and misses it, or a traveler who misses the correct turn. Het' is also used to describe breaches of social ethics, as when someone misses an opportunity to assist another.
Yeah. I know that's not what the author means, but I totally went there.
