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| | The rate of [[devolution of language]] may be increasing as communications increase. If a word inevitably alters its meaning after an approximate number of uses, then the time period for the change in meaning will shorten due to improved technology, just as the length of a [[sound bite]] likewise shortens. In the [[internet]] era, combating the effect of language degradation on the understanding of the [[Bible]] becomes more important. | | The rate of [[devolution of language]] may be increasing as communications increase. If a word inevitably alters its meaning after an approximate number of uses, then the time period for the change in meaning will shorten due to improved technology, just as the length of a [[sound bite]] likewise shortens. In the [[internet]] era, combating the effect of language degradation on the understanding of the [[Bible]] becomes more important. |
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| − | There is an economic obstacle to developing a translation of the Bible that remains current with changes in language. Book sales have been declining sharply due to the internet, and it is probably not easy to recoup the substantial costs ($10 million for the [[Holman Christian Standard Bible]]) that are required to bring develop a new translation. With that reality, translators are probably overly cautious in changing familiar terminology despite erosion in their meaning, in fear of criticism. A lower-cost and more dynamic approach is needed to combat the effects of degradation in language. | + | There is an economic obstacle to developing a translation of the Bible that remains current with changes in language. Book sales have been declining sharply due to the internet, and it is probably not easy to recoup the substantial costs ($10 million for the [[Holman Christian Standard Bible]]) that are required to develop a new translation. With the need to recoup and enormous investment, publishers of a new Bible are probably overly cautious in changing familiar terminology despite erosion in their meaning, in fear of criticism and a poor reception. A lower-cost and more dynamic approach is needed to combat the effects of persistent degradations in language. |
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| | As a first step to the Bible Retranslation Project, it is useful to identify modern terms having changing, unclear or altered meaning, which appear in important passages in translations of the Bible into the corresponding modern language. This will help avoid cliché and the repetition of culturally-familiar but suboptimal passages while producing a superior rendition from the original Hebrew and Greek into idiomatic modern English. | | As a first step to the Bible Retranslation Project, it is useful to identify modern terms having changing, unclear or altered meaning, which appear in important passages in translations of the Bible into the corresponding modern language. This will help avoid cliché and the repetition of culturally-familiar but suboptimal passages while producing a superior rendition from the original Hebrew and Greek into idiomatic modern English. |
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| | |replace "government" with "kingdom" - I dislike this - I don't think that monarchy metaphors are really as strong or as relevant as they used to be in the days of the ubiquity absolute rulers. Also "kingdom" is an area of land, I think we want something like "rulership"? Though that sounds a bit ugly. | | |replace "government" with "kingdom" - I dislike this - I don't think that monarchy metaphors are really as strong or as relevant as they used to be in the days of the ubiquity absolute rulers. Also "kingdom" is an area of land, I think we want something like "rulership"? Though that sounds a bit ugly. |
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| − | | | + | |Greek εἰρήνη transliteration: "eirene": |
| | |"peace" | | |"peace" |
| − | |"... [[Jesus]] came and stood among them and said, 'Peace be with you!'" John 20:19 ([[NIV]]) | + | |"... [[Jesus]] came and stood among them and said, 'Peace be with you!'" John 20:19 (NIV)<ref>http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Jhn&c=20&v=19&t=NIV#conc/19</ref> |
| | |"peace" now means an absence of war | | |"peace" now means an absence of war |
| | |an inner peace and lack of personal fear or anxiety | | |an inner peace and lack of personal fear or anxiety |