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"recline" or "sit down"?
== Outdated or Awkward Translations ==
== Outdated or Awkward Translations ==
The New American Bible has a high percentage of outdated or awkward translations in key passages, including the following examples below. Note that each of these is a particularly important passage:
The New American Bible has a high percentage of outdated or awkward translations in key passages, including the following examples below. Note that many of these are important passages:
*The translation of Luke 2:1-5 (the census at the time of the birth of Jesus) by the New American Bible uses the word "enrollment" instead of "census", and uses the word "enrolled" in instead of "registered"; these terms are unfamiliar to most young people who think that enrollment refers to school and do not connect the terms with a census:<ref>http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/luke/luke2.htm</ref>
*The translation of Luke 2:1-5 (the census at the time of the birth of Jesus) by the New American Bible uses the word "enrollment" instead of "census", and uses the word "enrolled" in instead of "registered"; these terms are unfamiliar to most young people who think that enrollment refers to school and do not connect the terms with a census:<ref>http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/luke/luke2.htm</ref>
::Jesus said to them, "Only in his hometown, among his relatives and in his own home is a prophet without honor.
::Jesus said to them, "Only in his hometown, among his relatives and in his own home is a prophet without honor.
*In Mark 6:4, an awkward [[compound negative]] is used that obscures the meaning:
::Jesus said to them, "A prophet is '''not without''' honor except in his native place and among his own kin and in his own house.
:The [[NIV]] and [[New Jerusalem Bible]] remove the compound negative and say it directly, as in the NIV version:
::Jesus said to them, "Only in his hometown, among his relatives and in his own home is a prophet without honor.
*In John 6:10, the misleading term "recline" is used to describe the sitting down of the large crowd before the multiplication of the loaves, and virtually every other translation uses "sit down":
::Jesus said, "Have the people recline." Now there was a great deal of grass in that place. So the men reclined, about five thousand in number. (New American Bible)
::Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." There was plenty of grass there, so the men sat down, about five thousand of them. ([[Revised English Bible]])
== References ==
== References ==