Re: Bible ? Quran ? Torah ?

de Vrodok the Piglet lover 04/15/2006 01:00

Once Upon A Time (on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:07:56 -0400), in alt.comp.freeware, Al
Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid>, by way of Message-id
<o40042doikj9g3f0aq7ijvfachhhq7emmg@4ax.com>, wrote:

>On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 03:25:33 GMT, John Hood <JohnHood@wi.rr.com>
>wrote:
>
>>I will as soon as you go look up what you're actually talking about.
>>What we in modern times call the "Old Testament", is a translation from
>>the Hebrew.
>
>What *WE* call the Old Testament - in Hebrew - isn't a translation
>from anything.
>
>> Why: What it was called when it was written and collected-
>>was "Tanakh," a Hebrew acronym for "Torah, Nevi'im and Ketuvim" meaning
>>"The law, the prophets, the writings." It was not "the Old Testament"
>>until Christians got a hold of it and (*gasp!*) translated it, into
>>Coptic, Latin, Greek - and several attempts at English leading up to the
>>KJV.
>
>Which has nothing to do with the fact that the Hebrew bible isn't a
>translation from Hebrew, it *IS* Hebrew. If you insist on reading an
>English mistranslation, that's you, that's not the bible.

John appears to be confusing the Old and New Testaments. Darn if I know how.
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