Talk:Linguistic Bias of Bible Translations

Scientific Terminology

Yeah, divine reasoning is obviously logically perfect, so let's use the terms interchangeably... What you call "scientific terminology", I call equivocation: scientific terminology is obviously jargon, jargon is obviously mumbo-jumbo, mumbo-jumbo is obviously nonsense. Nonsense has no place in a translation of the Bible! --AugustO 00:58, 20 June 2015 (EDT)

λόγος

Andy, please present any scholarly source which translates λόγος as "logic". --AugustO 16:53, 20 June 2015 (EDT)

What do you think "divine reason" is, if not logic?--Andy Schlafly 18:35, 20 June 2015 (EDT)

At best, logic is one aspect of "divine reason" - and not equivalent. But I asked for a scholarly source - do you have one? --AugustO 18:40, 20 June 2015 (EDT)

James Strong

James Strong - as organizer and builder of a railroad - did probably know more about thermodynamics than all the evangelists combined. Are you really complaining about those knowing the languages doing the translations? --AugustO 19:04, 20 June 2015 (EDT)

There is not much of a difference, really...

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There is a linguistic bias to nearly all Bible translations that tend to favor literary rather than scientific gender specific over gender neutral terminology. James Strong, who wrote the classic dictionary of the meaning of Greek and Hebrew words in the Bible, had a background in literature the white middle-class of his time rather than in math and science current sociology. Strong's work was in the 1800s, before all of the 20th century intellectual breakthroughs and language development that can better capture the powerful original meaning of ancient terms like "logos".

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The impact of the linguistic background of Bible scholars is to fail to convey the full scientific sociological or logical power of some verses, and to lose female students whose interests are more on the quantitative than literary side.

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It is all about presenting the Bible not as it is, but as it should be - according to you.

--AugustO 02:21, 22 June 2015 (EDT)