Re: Bible ? Quran ? Torah ? (OT)

de John Fitzsimons 04/17/2006 04:46

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 02:04:17 -0400, Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid>
wrote:

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>I don't know. The NT was written in Greek, it's not translated from
>Hebrew. The OT was written in Hebrew (the original was probably
>written in a very old dialect, since it was written a long time ago).
>Neither one, in the original, was *translated from* Hebrew. Modern
>translations (and none of the translations of the NT are accurate)
>were translated from Hebrew, in the case of the OT, or from Greek, in
>the case of the NT, into whatever language one is reading at the
>moment. But to say that the OT is a translation from Hebrew, or that
>the NT is a translation from Greek, is to somehow trivialize the
>originals.

The "originals" are simply a mixture of stories. Some of which are
probably true and some of which aren't. Added to that there are many
that are probably exaggerations/distortions. Story tellers/historians
have always added bits, subtracted bits, misrepresented events in
what they write.

Of course there are always the more gullible among us who choose
to ignore this.

Also, just because someone writes in Hebrew it doesn't follow that
what they write is the truth.