Measurements II

In addition to the paper "Biblical Measurements and their Translation", what I want to do here is to give a few more practical hints about dealing with measurements. This guide is written mainly for translation teams who want to convert the OT measurements into modern ones, using metric units (meter, liter and kilogram). This raises some practical problems. Apart from reviewing some basic principles regarding measurements of length, capacity and weight, I address problems that come with rounding converted values up or down, and with the matter of turning units of capacity into units of weight, and some further issues. I comment on a few complex passages.