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At last, this compromised, sycophantic, creepily self-exonerating historian stands tall, brimful with pride in his Judaism, and says in a phrase I find genuinely moving—We have become the teachers of men in the greatest of things.
最后,這一妥協(xié),奉承,令人毛骨悚然，兼具自我責(zé)備之心的歷史學(xué)家最終贏得了勝利,他的猶太教滿懷驕傲之情,而說(shuō)著一句令我真正感動(dòng)的話，我們成為了男性的榜樣，做出了最偉大的事情。
Given the hammer blows of the Roman legions, and coming as they did after century upon century of blows from Egyptians, the Syrians and Babylonians, there would have been scant reason to suppose that the Jews would survive as a people. And yet, 2,000 years later, the Jews are still here. How. Well, one answer can be found back at the Arch of Titus, not something that's here, but something that's not.
對(duì)于羅馬軍團(tuán)的打擊,就如同他們幾個(gè)世紀(jì)來(lái)對(duì)埃及人,敘利亞和巴比倫人所做的一模一樣,這是我們認(rèn)為猶太人生存下來(lái)的理由。然而,2000年后,猶太人仍在這里。在提圖斯的拱門處可以找到答案,這里沒(méi)有什么東西留下,但絕不是空無(wú)一物。
When Josephus describes the procession of loot and prisoners parades through the streets of Rome, he says, and last of all of the spoils was carried, the laws of the Jews. But where are the laws. Where are the Torah scrolls. Conspicuously, tellingly, they are absent.
當(dāng)約瑟夫描述掠奪和囚犯游行的隊(duì)伍走在羅馬的大街上,他表示最后所有的戰(zhàn)利品是猶太人的法律。但法律在哪里。律法的卷軸在哪里。明顯的是它們已經(jīng)不在了。
What were scrolls of law anyway. Just so many words on parchment, not really worth the time of a sculptor or the cost of the marble. But words copied, memorized, internalized, made unforgettable, will beat swords any time. You can't hold words captive. The Roman Empire has come and gone, but go into a synagogue any Saturday, and you'll still hear those words.
什么是法律卷軸。只是羊皮紙上的很多單詞,不是雕塑家傾注的大把時(shí)間或大理石的價(jià)值。僅僅是復(fù)制,記憶,難忘,會(huì)使得劍刃折斷的話語(yǔ)。你不能囚禁語(yǔ)言的奴隸。羅馬帝國(guó)來(lái)去匆匆,但只要在任何一個(gè)周六進(jìn)入會(huì)堂,你仍然會(huì)聽(tīng)到這些話。
