tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post8447316563898496147..comments2024-03-12T11:58:24.510+13:00Comments on Otagosh: CEB - the best "broad spectrum" translation yet?Gavin Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17965552923012880262noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-64000962646731115542011-07-16T08:53:39.434+12:002011-07-16T08:53:39.434+12:00"Suffice to say, playing pick 'n mix with...<em>"Suffice to say, playing pick 'n mix with bible translations so you can quote the one that best serves your agenda isn't quite what textual criticism is about."</em><br /><br />I am referring more to such things as the translation of John 13:2, which, in modern translations, now reads <em>"during supper"</em> --- which it did not, during the heyday of the KJV in the mainline professing Christian churches, which read <em>after supper</em>.<br /><br />In the 1964 Ambassador College Bible Correspondence Course, this mistranslation was pointed out. As was the mistranslation of Acts 12:4, where "Passover" (now to be found in any "mainline" translation) was replaced by "Easter" instead.<br /><br />I can think of no other Christian church, in the 1950s and 60s, that was pointing these things out. Yet, it seems par for the course, to be pointed out in today's "textual criticism."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-3395984310415207922011-07-16T08:35:48.105+12:002011-07-16T08:35:48.105+12:00I frankly don't know anyone who has a pair of ...I frankly don't know anyone who has a pair of rose coloured glasses quite like the ones you've got bolted on Velvet. Suffice to say, playing pick 'n mix with bible translations so you can quote the one that best serves your agenda isn't quite what <i>textual criticism</i> is about.Gavin Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17965552923012880262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-51604590090777470622011-07-16T08:24:01.605+12:002011-07-16T08:24:01.605+12:00"....broach the topic of textual criticism, t...<em>"....broach the topic of textual criticism, there are probably COGgers out there who say to themselves, "Textual criticism? How could anybody be in favor of tearing apart or talking bad about the Bible?"</em><br /><br />Must be a splinter group thing, Bob. Church literature all the way back to the 1950s, was teaching us how it was useful to use many different translations (and even to read many different translations), and instructing the world at large how much of the text had been mistranslated, to fuel a politico-religious agenda, decades before it became au courant to do so.<br /><br />Most of us in the WCG had several different translations, as well as a few concordances, not to mention copies of books like <em>The Dead Sea Scrolls</em> in our libraries. In fact, the congregational library had those, as well....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-90346522044558417752011-07-15T08:30:26.406+12:002011-07-15T08:30:26.406+12:00I think they should just rewrite the whole book an...I think they should just rewrite the whole book and just start over. It's just not right that a divine author should only publish one book, that is, if he want to continue to be an author.Corkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15894537940881776504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-77006325125877651502011-07-13T18:07:54.409+12:002011-07-13T18:07:54.409+12:00The Methodist bookstore here in town has the NT fo...The Methodist bookstore here in town has the NT for 6.00. I picked it up the other day. Will start checking it out to see how much different it is.NO2HWAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02018654662518613623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-86101194192729941782011-07-13T07:40:58.635+12:002011-07-13T07:40:58.635+12:00It's nice to have one more reference around, i...It's nice to have one more reference around, isn't it?<br /><br />It's a shame that most people never look into the history behind the Bible. Sometimes, I just know that if I introduce Bart Ehrmann into a discussion, or broach the topic of textual criticism, there are probably COGgers out there who say to themselves, "Textual criticism? How could anybody be in favor of tearing apart or talking bad about the Bible?" <br /><br />Not a clue!<br /><br />BBByker Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15602697337552385535noreply@blogger.com