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Bible translation committees have an academic institutional bias.  Characteristics of this bias include:
 
Bible translation committees have an academic institutional bias.  Characteristics of this bias include:
 
*preferring emasculation rather than the masculine;
 
*preferring emasculation rather than the masculine;
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*a pedantic insistence on consistency rather than empowerment;
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*a pedantic insistence on consistency rather than empowerment, running afoul of [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]]'s famous warning that “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.";
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:*an example of this is the insistence by professors today to mistranslate as "chains fell off his hands" (rather than wrists) at {{bibleref|Acts|12|7}} to be consistent but incorrect as the Greek term meant either hands or wrists;
 
*an exclusion of insights from [[STEM]] fields, or nearly any field other than that of the professor himself;
 
*an exclusion of insights from [[STEM]] fields, or nearly any field other than that of the professor himself;
 
*an unjustified disdain for those not formerly educated for years after high school or college;  
 
*an unjustified disdain for those not formerly educated for years after high school or college;  
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