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Hello, I believe the best translation is the one you will read. You can not gain any knowledge of the word unless you read it.criticizer said:
The Greek already made a translation from Hebrew for the OT, and there is no clear indication whether the NT was written in Hebrew, Aramic, or Greek. So before Catholic stopped other people from translating, and stuck to the Latin version, and all priests must study Latin, is not trying to maintain the original meaning of the scripture, but is more like the monopoly of the Catholic church so that not many will question how those chosen to be priests interprete the scripture.SPLogan said:
Jews, not Greeks, translated the OT into Koine, producing the Septuagint, though this was done at the request of the (Greek) Ptolemaic Pharaoh. There's also a lot of evidence that the NT was, in fact, written in Koine. I'm told by various Greek priests (my Greek knowledge being nowhere near good enough to see this) that you can see when reading some of the texts that the author was not a native Greek speaker but someone for whom Koine was a second language and, given the status of Koine as the lingua franca of the eastern mediterranean even before the Roman Empire, it certainly would have made more sense to use it than, say, Aramaic. It's also worth noting that the Aramaic Pe****ta is a more recent translation from Koine rather than an older text. The undivided Catholic Church did not exclusively use Latin, this was a post-Schism Roman Catholic idea. In the east, missionary activities generally began by translating the Bible into the local language and, apart from a reasonably brief peculiar period when the Romanians used Slavonic, the Scriptures and the Liturgy have always been in the vernacular.greatcalgarian said:
Thansk for the clarification.JamesThePersian said:
So go and learn the obsolete dialect of English to fully comprehend the Bible. Remember early priests have to study Latin in order to be able to understand the bible fully.NetDoc said:
Why? None of the Bible was written in Latin. I always find it rather strange that people go to the effort of learning a dead language just so that they can read an old translation.greatcalgarian said:So go and learn the obsolete dialect of English to fully comprehend the Bible. Remember early priests have to study Latin in order to be able to understand the bible fully.
Most religious orders I know teach Greek and Hebrew to seminarians BEFORE Latin.... and Latin is not taught to Priest for Bible study, but for the Liturgy.... they start to learn (at least Jesuits) Greek in the first (of 13 years) year of studies.greatcalgarian said:Remember early priests have to study Latin in order to be able to understand the bible fully.
Yet it is quite comprehensible. I even know children who understand, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."NetDoc said:
I believe the reason is to go to the original earliest version, so that the error transmitted in translation can be avoided.JamesThePersian said:
Scott1 said:
I thought the Septuagint was not referred to by early Catholics until the 16th century, with the birth of the Protestants, and hence the revival of the Greek version since Luther did not trust the Latin translation used by Pope and the Catholics during that time?
Mostly, yes. The Pe****ta, however, is a kind of combined single gospel compiled from the 4 canonical gospels and has nothing to do with the Old Testament at all. It is a translation from Greek into Aramaic and to the best of my knowledge is no longer used even by the Syriac churches.greatcalgarian said:
What I am saying is that prior to AD400, the 'church' mostly used the Septuagint, since of the early Christians are not Jews, and they did not use the Hebrew version. Once Jerome translated the Vulgate, that was the authentic book used by the Catholic until 1600, when the reformation protestants started to question Rome authority in the interpretation. I believe they then used both the Hebrew to Torah or whatever it was called and the Septuagint together to produce all the newer translated version.JamesThePersian said:
