What's with all the new Bible versions?

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by Sean

I am not a translator...LOL

What are you doing then with an old English dictionary and the KJV?

[Sean]

Originally Posted by Scott Pitta

How many languages does Sean speak ? Have you ever translated or interpreted for others ?

1..one

If the material is not overly complex, translating the NT is not that hard.

Segraves is quite capable of serving on a translation team.

He went to school to learn basic modern Hebrew. He tinkers with the Greek too...nah, not qualified...nor Mahaney, or Haney etc.

[Sean]

Boy, you guys though reading the Bible had to be hard, huh?

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by Sean

Boy, you guys though reading the Bible had to be hard, huh?

What?

[Scott Pitta]

Ask him, not me !!!

He studied Greek on the college level. He may have even taught it after I graduated. Not sure about that. He is familiar with the Greek literature of the NT.

Some days I crack open my Greek Bible and I can read it. If the grammar is easy and the vocabulary is the usual stuff. Complex sentences sprinkled with unusual vocabulary are frustrating.

I have had to interpret on the spot for Spanish and Russian. But those language skills are rather rusty anymore.

Greek is easier than textual criticism.

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by Sean

He went to school to learn basic modern Hebrew. He tinkers with the Greek too...nah, not qualified...nor Mahaney, or Haney etc.

Brother Charles Mahaney?

I guess you didn't like him quoting the Hebrew?

[randyabrown]

I've always wondered about spelling. If I have to spell savior with the British spelling - saviour - do I also have to read it with a British accent?

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by randyabrown

I've always wondered about spelling. If I have to spell savior with the British spelling - saviour - do I also have to read it with a British accent?

That's not just a British spelling, it's also a Southern spelling...

[Sean]

Originally Posted by Scott Pitta

Ask him, not me !!!

He studied Greek on the college level. He may have even taught it after I graduated. Not sure about that. He is familiar with the Greek literature of the NT.

Yes, just like a current teacher friend of mine at CLC college....They are no more fluent in the ancient Greek language than the guy on the street in Greece. His sources are modern interpretations of Greek words, not ancient.


Some days I crack open my Greek Bible and I can read it. If the grammar is easy and the vocabulary is the usual stuff. Complex sentences sprinkled with unusual vocabulary are frustrating.


I call that "tinkering" with Greek.


I have had to interpret on the spot for Spanish and Russian.


But those language skills are rather rusty anymore.

Greek is easier than textual criticism.

I dont diminish from your skills Scott...my only point is the folks that are searching for "deeper" meanings than their KJV is offering. Essentially, they unwittingly most of the time, desire to translate the Bible for themselves, using modern interpretations(works).....Like this...they go from English(KJV) to Greek(whatever source) to English(the ideas of the source) again.

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by randyabrown

I've always wondered about spelling. If I have to spell savior with the British spelling - saviour - do I also have to read it with a British accent?