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1 | The Massorah? | OT general | serenetime | 30728 | ||
Tim, It is so nice to hear from you, but I feel that Your opinion is not worthy unless you can prove it. Even if the massorah was not until the first century, that their are bible translation like the amplified, and the NIV,and so on and so forth that I feel are straying Christians from the true word. Just my opinion. Serenetime | ||||||
2 | The Massorah? | OT general | Hank | 30816 | ||
Serentime: The burden of proof for the fidelity of any translation to the ancient manuscripts rests in the hands of qualified scholars. We who are not so endowed with the requisite scholarship have no viable alternative but to base our assessment of the merits of any given translation on qualified opinion. I know of no reliable accusation that has been railed against the NIV or Amplified Bibles that even hints that they are leading anyone astray from the true word. Do you? It begs reason and fairness to publish a statement such as yours about these transalations unless one makes at least some attempt to justify it. If what you have said is merely your opinion, are you able to cite and would you be willing to post specific passages in the NIV and the Amplified Bibles wherein you conclude that they are leading the reader astray from the true word? And include, if you will please, your analysis of why any cited passage in either of these translations is misleading to the reader. What is your concept of what "the true word" actually is? We may all claim the right to our opinion. But unless our opinion is based on and backed up by at least some degree of fact, we do ourselves and others a better service by keeping it to ourselves. --Hank | ||||||
3 | The Massorah? | OT general | kalos | 30823 | ||
Hank: Thank you. Yours is the voice of reason and sanity. By the way, I don't know one word of Russian. But in my spare time, I think I'll purchase a Russian-English dictionary. Then I will be fully qualified to check our English translations of Tolstoy to make sure they are accurate. If there is any discrepancy between the original and the translations, I need only consult somone who has read a chapter or two of WAR AND PEACE. Between the two of us we will surely have more knowledge and authority than the original transators. If anyone believes that, I have a bridge I'd like to sell them. kalos |
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4 | The Massorah? | OT general | EdB | 30829 | ||
How much you want for that old bridge partner? :-) EdB |
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5 | The Massorah? | OT general | kalos | 30847 | ||
Ed: I'll take ten shekels for the bridge. Of course, first we'll have to start a thread to find the conversion rate between the shekel and the dollar. As soon as someone gives an answer, especially if it's the right one, we need to have some Internet Lone Ranger self-appointed shekel expert write in and tell the first guy he's wrong. This should be followed by 100 posts over a period of three weeks in which most of the Notes and Answers will come from those who have never in their lives seen a shekel and who don't even know how to pronounce the word. Included in the posts should be a quote or two from current publications in which the conversion rate (shekel to dollar) is accurately given. This will immediately be followed by warning posts cautioning the writer not to believe anything you read in establishment publications as to the value of a shekel. Then someone else will have to look up shekel in Strong's and work backwards into the original language. After the debate becomes more and more heated, bitter and divisive, someone should report it to the Lockman foundation and have it restricted from appearing on the homepage. A month from now someone will bring up the exact same question and we'll go through the entire farce again. In the meantime, another poster will ask how many shekels dowry did Cain's wife's father have to pay. To answer that question it will be debated whether Cain's wife's father was Adam, Cain's first son, a monkey, a Nephilim, or a fallen angel. By then the original bridge will have rusted and it will then be falling down, falling down, falling down. My fair lady. I'm sorry, Ed, what was your original question? In all the craziness we've lost sight of the original purpose of the thread. :-) Bless you, Ed, kalos |
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6 | The Massorah? | OT general | Hank | 30873 | ||
Kalos, by all means start the thread on shekels. I want to get in on it, not that I'm an expert on shekels, mind you, but I do know a thing or two about the subject, having read a book called "Dr. Shekel and Mr. Hyde." --Hank | ||||||