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Talk:Conservative Bible Project (view source)
Revision as of 18:29, April 10, 2017
, 18:29, April 10, 2017→Example of where the CBP elevates American culture over Ancient Near Eastern culture and obscures original intent of biblical authors
::::The move I disagree with. Feel free to discuss that sort of major change first. I'm moving it back but am open to discussion.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 14:10, 10 April 2017 (EDT)
::::The move I disagree with. Feel free to discuss that sort of major change first. I'm moving it back but am open to discussion.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] ([[User talk:Aschlafly|talk]]) 14:10, 10 April 2017 (EDT)
One the biggest challenges of Bible translating is putting yourself into the mindset of the Biblical authors in order to better capture the biblical authors original intent. I repeatedly warned you about the importance of having a through understanding of Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) so the CBP would not distort the meaning of the biblical text by injecting the mindset and cultural understandings of contemporary American culture. I am happy that you finally allowed a more ANE original intent to be introduced into the text rather than your own personal/cultural preference for brevity - namely by using the Hebrew names for God.
On the other hand, I still believe that you are not taking adequate measures to insure the original content is adequately conveyed to modern readers for the reasons I gave. For example, having an a priori list of words that you are intent on putting into the biblical text is not approaching things in an optimal manner. To do the best job of translating, one should ask what are the best possible English words I could use to translate this passage. The thought of scanning a list of words first to see if those particular English words could be used should not be a consideration. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 14:29, 10 April 2017 (EDT)