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Monday, September 3, 2012

Bible reading commandment

Commandment Six: Remember that the Bible wasn’t written in English.

Most of the Bible was written in Hebrew.
This makes the Bible a profoundly Jewish set of books. Jews wrote all of the Bible.
Most people seem to think that the Bible is a Christian book in the strictest sense.
Not true. The parts of the Bible that were not written in Hebrew were written in Greek. Even then, most of the people who wrote the Bible in Greek were Jews.
Again, the Bible is a Jewish collection of books. Those who wrote as Christians were by birth Jews and became Christians. The Bible was not written by a group of fundamentalist, U.S.-born white Christians. No, the Bible was written by Jews in Hebrew and Greek. It was never written in English.
Since the Bible was finished and being copied long before English existed, any Bible in English is a translation from the Hebrew and Greek copies that still exist.
There are many translations. There are many attempts to clearly translate the Bible into English. A version is another name for a translation. There are many translations, or versions, but there are not different versions of the Bible itself.
There is not a variety of Bibles that exists.
There is one Bible with many English versions. There are not many Bible versions and many English translations of those versions–just many translations of one Bible. (Of course, the Bible has also been translated into many other languages as well.)
One Bible, many translations (versions).
Some groups always think that they can translate the Bible better and more precisely than the ones who did it before. When people fuss over which version is right, they do not mean which Bible is right, they mean which translation they prefer.
Many people want to understand the Bible, so a great deal of money is made in Bible sales. A new translation of the ONE
Bible offers the hope that the Bible might be easier to understand this time around and they pay millions of dollars a year to find out.

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