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Translating Akkadian statements as certainties when they were possibilities changes the whole meaning of a text.
Drawn from what Irving Finkel said
What Irving Finkel actually said
- Irving Finkel Assyriologist at the British Museum
And if you translate, “He will,” in a literary text, “He might,” then the whole text is different. The whole text is different.
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