[HPforGrownups] Re: Anti-Potter AND Horse's Mouth

[B.C. French]

No: HPFGUIDX 1483

At 7:18 AM +0000 9/15/00, Kelley wrote:
>
>Everyone who has posted on the topic of Anti-Potter groups has made
>some outstanding points.  I know that's not adding anything to the
>conversation, but I wanted to say that.  In this vein, may I ask
>everyone something?  OT, but this group seems the best to ask.  Can
>anyone recommend a bible that's translated from the original
>Aramaic?


Well, most of the original wasn't written in Aramaic -- there was a 
lot written in Greek and Hebrew.  Also, there are a lot of "versions" 
out there that differ slightly from one another.

Anything after the Vulgate (St. Jerome's translation) is tainted 
beyond redemption, IMHO. I studied medieval church history at 
Vanderbilt University on the graduate level (before I decided to 
pursue a career that would actually make money -- I'm now an 
instructional designer and webmaster) and one of my professors was 
Jane Barry, a delightful elderly English lady who made a linguistic 
study of Jerome's translations. Using the same texts he is reported 
to have used, Mrs. Barry discovered many errors in his translations, 
and when she charted them, she found 98% of the errors were in 
passages about women, and fell into two categories: gross 
mistranslations of verbs and errors of editorialism -- Jerome 
actually added editorial comments. Write me privately if interested.

If you're interested primarily in New Testament, buy a copy of the 
Koinonia, an original Greek "version" with both Greek and English 
translation. I have a copy with Greek on one side and English on the 
other. Anything by the Jesus Convention is also fascinating reading.

...Barb
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Barbara French
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