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Talk:Conservative Bible Project (view source)
Revision as of 07:33, April 10, 2017
, 07:33, April 10, 2017→Project appears to unintentionally elevate American culture over Ancient Near Eastern culture and original intent: new section
--[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 02:40, 10 April 2017 (EDT)
--[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] ([[User talk:AugustO|talk]]) 02:40, 10 April 2017 (EDT)
== Project appears to unintentionally elevate American culture over Ancient Near Eastern culture and original intent ==
The Conservative Bible Project indicates: "Prefer Conciseness over Liberal Wordiness: preferring conciseness to the liberal style of high word-to-substance ratio; avoid compound negatives and unnecessary ambiguities; prefer concise, consistent use of the word "Lord" rather than "Jehovah" or "Yahweh" or "Lord God."
The problem of this thinking is that it ignores than in Ancient Near Eastern cultures, names were very important and so was the meaning of names. For example, both Abraham and Peter were renamed in light of their calling.
Each name of God has a specific meaning and it is no accident that there are many names of God in the ancient Hebrew and each has its own meaning. See: [https://www.blueletterbible.org/study/misc/name_god.cfm Names of God in the Old Testament]
The Conservative Bible Project, however, sacrifices the specific meanings of God for the sake of efficiency (brevity) which is highly valued in American culture (efficiency experts, business orientation of America such as Calvin Coolidge saying the business of America is business, modern Americans short attention spans, etc. etc.). [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 03:33, 10 April 2017 (EDT)