new bible version

Liudmilla · Post by **Liudmilla** » Thu 18 November 2004 2:04 pm

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/books/1 ... index.html

So far I'm not impressed....
Milla

gphadraig · Post by **gphadraig** » Thu 18 November 2004 2:24 pm

One of the most persistent and difficult to answer criticisms I have had from Moslems is the Christians cannot even agree on a text for their scriptures, a new version every few months.

Even within local Orthodox churches one may find several versions used by people sharing a common language. I'll give this one a miss, thanks.

Schultz · Post by **Schultz** » Thu 18 November 2004 3:03 pm

Perhaps they are his best -- or intended -- audience? That is not a slap at Jews, but an observation that Dr. Alter appears to have approached the sacred text not with reverence, but as a secular, literary scholar.

This is precisely the idea I got as well after reading a number of articles today about this translation. He seems very much like a literary/linguistic scholar, not a theologian. Nor do I see him claiming that he is, either.

George · Post by **George** » Thu 18 November 2004 3:56 pm

I may be wrong, (and please correct me if this is the case), but I am sure I read that the original Hebrew version of the Old Testament was lost, and the version used these days comes from the middle ages. The Septuagint, however, being a translation into Greek of the original version.

Schultz · Post by **Schultz** » Thu 18 November 2004 4:27 pm

George wrote:
I may be wrong, (and please correct me if this is the case), but I am sure I read that the original Hebrew version of the Old Testament was lost, and the version used these days comes from the middle ages. The Septuagint, however, being a translation into Greek of the original version.

I was thinking this, too. I got into it with an Anglican friend of mine about this, who said that he trusted the Jews to keep their scriptural writings intact. However, when I pointed out that Jewish scholars and transcribers of the first few centuries AD may have fiddled with Scripture in order to take attention away from Christ, and that the LXX was translated before the birth of Christ, he shut up.

I'm still interested in reading at least the first few chapters of Genesis and comparing them to the Septuagint and to the Vulgate, just for my own scholarly curiosity.

Seeker · Post by **Seeker** » Fri 19 November 2004 8:00 pm

The Orthodox Church is working on an English LXX. Go here: http://www.lxx.org/ Please don't mistype it!

user_22 · Post by **user_22** » Fri 19 November 2004 9:01 pm

Seeker wrote:
The Orthodox Church is working on an English LXX. Go here: http://www.lxx.org/ Please don't mistype it!

On the same web page is pictured the "Orthodox" Study Bible.

Is this their standard? Gag!