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Talk:Conservative Bible Project (view source)
Revision as of 22:31, November 12, 2009
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JosephMac, had you intended your participation to be in the translating end? "but my ancient Greek is nowhere near good enough to translate from the original (I know how to ask where to find a patisserie in modern Greek but that won't get me far with the New Testament" I really don't think so.[[User:BertSchlossberg|Bert Schlossberg]] 17:28, 11 November 2009 (EST)
JosephMac, had you intended your participation to be in the translating end? "but my ancient Greek is nowhere near good enough to translate from the original (I know how to ask where to find a patisserie in modern Greek but that won't get me far with the New Testament" I really don't think so.[[User:BertSchlossberg|Bert Schlossberg]] 17:28, 11 November 2009 (EST)
:Bert, I was being somewhat self-deprecating. I can translate a Greek text into English with the aid of a dictionary. However, what I'm not at all qualified to do is to make scholarly judgements about alternative versions of a given Greek text.
:Commenting on a point made by Andy above, "some critics of our public-based Bible translation overlook that the Bible itself was written by the public": quite so but a very small proportion of the public understand dead languages and no more than a few dozen people have the level of scholarship needed to make expert judgements about the authenticity of texts in those languages.
:I'm also becoming concerned that translations are being made on trhe grounds of ideology rather than accuracy. See new section I'm about to add below. This is a further reason why I'm getting cold feet about participating in this project. [[User:JosephMac|JosephMac]] 17:31, 12 November 2009 (EST)
== "Idiomatic" shouldn't really "level through" ==
== "Idiomatic" shouldn't really "level through" ==