[MR] English translation from original Greek and Aramaic

[Anthony Bryant]

I don't usually respond to myself. <G>

Anthony Bryant wrote:

> For example, the psalm that begins "Blessed is the man who 
> walks not in the council of the ungodly" has been "gender 
> corrected" to read "Blessed is the one..." -- despite the 
> fact that for centuries the Church's teaching and 
> understanding is that this is a prophetic psalm, and the man 
> --er, "one" spoken of is Christ. The NRSV is full of this 
> type of change.

I thought that sounded wrong, so I went back and checked. 
The NRSV text is WORSE: "Happy are those who do not follow 
the advice of the wicked" -- HAPPY are THOSE?

(Yes, I have an NRSV. I have about a dozen or so Bibles 
here. I told you, I went to a seminary. <G>)

In many churches, the NRSV was to be avoided like the plague.

You might find this article useful:
http://www.holy-trinity.org/liturgics/nrsv.html
It's a critique of English translations of the Bible from 
the perspective of a Church that should know -- it's the one 
who put the Bible together in the first place. <G>


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