Subject: Re: `onlybegotten God/son` or `the onlybegotten who is God`

From: Jim West <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 13:24:42 GMT

An excellent discussion of the whole issue of translation can be found in
Pinchas Lapide's "Ist die Bibel richtig uebersetzt?"  2 vol.

Jim

At 05:37 AM 1/16/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Rolf Furuli wrote:
>
>> ...the role played by theology 
>> and bias in Bible translation. Is the reader completely 
>> dependent upon the translators` subjective views? Is it 
>> possible to make a translation where the reader who does not 
>> know the original languages may have a part in the 
>> translation process?
>
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>The translator must make certain linguistic choices which have
>theological/spiritual consequences. In English, for example, one
>capitalizes nouns and pronouns which refer to God.
>
>Perhaps more to the point, there arise the occasional ambiguous pronouns
>in Hebrew which have more than one possible antecedent. It being difficult
>or impossible to replicate this ambiguity in English, the translator must
>decided between:
>
>"This is the day which the Lord has made, and we will rejoice and be glad
>in Him."
>
>OR
>
>".....in it."
>
>The completely "objective" translation is very elusive. To even come
>close, one would need a large critical apparatus to list alternatives.
>
>Andrew C. Smith
>
>
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Jim West, ThD
Petros TN

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