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: But the objections in this entry have more to do with simply awkward or outright mistaken translations. "Grain ... produces much fruit"??? How is that possibly defensible? It such an important passage, too.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 21:00, 29 March 2009 (EDT) | : But the objections in this entry have more to do with simply awkward or outright mistaken translations. "Grain ... produces much fruit"??? How is that possibly defensible? It such an important passage, too.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 21:00, 29 March 2009 (EDT) | ||
| + | ::I agree there are a handful of awkward places like "fruit" (the problem is that "fruit" has multiple meanings.) The OT Prophets books I worked on were much improved in the new version. The Vatican in those days had some oddball and "liberalism" was not at issue. More serious was the idea that Americans would replace the Douai version which had many vested interests in terms of book publishers, as well as old-fashioned clergy who really liked the wholly outdated Doua1 language. [[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 21:07, 29 March 2009 (EDT) | ||
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Back when I was studying religion at Notre Dame (in 1960-61) I helped out in a very small way on this translation (punctuation, mostly), and can report that the chief translators were indeed conservative Catholics. RJJensen 20:56, 29 March 2009 (EDT)
- Don't know about that. The end product was so liberal that the Vatican rejected it and required a major re-editing. Feminist influence on the translation was one problem, as the meaning of gender was changed to appease liberals.
- But the objections in this entry have more to do with simply awkward or outright mistaken translations. "Grain ... produces much fruit"??? How is that possibly defensible? It such an important passage, too.--Andy Schlafly 21:00, 29 March 2009 (EDT)
- I agree there are a handful of awkward places like "fruit" (the problem is that "fruit" has multiple meanings.) The OT Prophets books I worked on were much improved in the new version. The Vatican in those days had some oddball and "liberalism" was not at issue. More serious was the idea that Americans would replace the Douai version which had many vested interests in terms of book publishers, as well as old-fashioned clergy who really liked the wholly outdated Doua1 language. RJJensen 21:07, 29 March 2009 (EDT)