[MR] English translation from original Greek and Aramaic

[Joshua Thomas]

This is way off topic. There are several communities on the net and in real
life devoted to Bible study for the casual as well as the committed academic
authenticity mavin who wants to make a career of its study.

Some suggested resource (do some searching):
www.google.com (Google Scholar even)

One attempt at a modern translation off the originial texts. I got from
Google.
http://www.bible.org/default.asp?scid=3

If your willing to dig I know there are Classical Departments at
Universities that have docotorate/master canidates working on a project
based translations that make their work publicly cosumable. My sister goes
to Brown as a Classical major her thesis is on how adverbs were used in a
particular greek playwrights work during antiquity. She gets paid to
research this. So I am sure by comparision of importance there are people
who spend their days looking at dust covered folios and tablets transcribing
and translating the extants as a professional acaedemic pursuit.

On 12/20/05, Aimee Kratts <troenwolf at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings People of the List,
>
> I know there's someone out there who's got the answer to this question.
>
> I'm trying to find an English translation of the Bible that comes from the
> original Greek. I'm trying to get to a version that's more accurate than a
> version that came through the Middle Ages with all the additions and
> deletions done by monks copying the text over and over (see: King James).
>
> Does anybody know about a modern scholar who has gone back and
> retranslated
> a version from Greek? I'm looking for something that is true to the
> original
> writing without any particular Christian church's specific values
> highlighted.
>
> I know about the author who translated the first books of the Torah from
> the
> original. However, I'm more interested in the New Testament.
>
> Can anyone point me in a direction?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Amie Sparrow
>
>
>
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