Interpretation

[Kutless]

Originally Posted by philjones

Kutless,

Do you think there is a difference in an interpreter and a translator?

the meturgeman/interpreter did not give a word for word analysis, rather an understanding of what was implied.

Seems like a translator would be more word for word.


Has anyone ever studied out the format of the early church?

[Kutless]

Edersheim, Alfred. Sketches of Jewish Social Life. 1994, pg 253

The section of the day was subdivided so that every Sabbath at least seven persons were called up to read, each a portion, which was to consist of not less than 3 verses. The first reader began, and the last closed with the bendiction. As the Hebrew had given place to the Aramic, a "meturgeman", or interpreter stood by the side of the preacher, and translated verse by verse into the vernacular.