{"title":"Short Note: \"On the Third Day\" is \"Two Days Later\"","authors":"Peter Schmidt","doi":"10.54395/jot-e6h9m","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"What does the phrase ישִילִ ְּׁ שהַַ םוֹיּהַַ hayyôm haššlîšî ‘the third day’ mean? This is a small issue, but it occurs repeatedly in both narrative and legal texts, and translators have to make a decision on it. Modern versions take different stances, and some of them are inconsistent within themselves. The commentaries give hardly any attention to the question. This note deals with a number of instances and should help the exegete/translator to come up with a well-founded approach. The main points are these:","PeriodicalId":38669,"journal":{"name":"SKASE Journal of Translation and Interpretation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SKASE Journal of Translation and Interpretation","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.54395/jot-e6h9m","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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What does the phrase ישִילִ ְּׁ שהַַ םוֹיּהַַ hayyôm haššlîšî ‘the third day’ mean? This is a small issue, but it occurs repeatedly in both narrative and legal texts, and translators have to make a decision on it. Modern versions take different stances, and some of them are inconsistent within themselves. The commentaries give hardly any attention to the question. This note deals with a number of instances and should help the exegete/translator to come up with a well-founded approach. The main points are these: