From lojban-out@lojban.org Fri Oct 28 11:46:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 58923 invoked from network); 28 Oct 2005 18:46:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.167) by m8.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 28 Oct 2005 18:46:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Oct 2005 18:46:23 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1EVZEy-0002JU-KJ for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:46:12 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EVZEe-0002Ii-5H; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:45:52 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:45:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1EVZEL-0002IY-Au for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:45:33 -0700 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.194]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EVZEJ-0002IQ-CP for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:45:33 -0700 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id k1so165997nzf for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:45:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.135.20 with SMTP id i20mr554264nzd; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:45:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.37.4 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:45:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8f2fd4aa0510281145y437dceb8lbf7239047d6a74a4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:45:29 -0700 In-Reply-To: <12d58c160510281013r29b602b1kc9d2296460d97674@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline References: <12d58c160510281005k470ce4f3y819c27972b3c70de@mail.gmail.com> <12d58c160510281013r29b602b1kc9d2296460d97674@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -1.7 (-) X-archive-position: 10734 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: brandon@yrick.com X-list: lojban-list X-Spam-Score: -1.7 (-) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Originating-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0:0 X-eGroups-From: Brandon Wirick From: Brandon Wirick Reply-To: brandon@yrick.com Subject: [lojban] Re: Question re: Bible translation X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790; y=-R401H21O3T302pEp0JM3egGvGmWGKu4yDwsMugITdyT7OQHLw X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 25123 What we need are a bunch of ancient language scholars who know Lojban, or a bunch of Lojbanists to brush up on ancient Hebrew and/or Greek. All this English in between is pretty lame. mu'omi'e.uirik. On 10/28/05, Adam COOPER wrote: > coi ro do > I gather that the ongoing Bible translation (a compelling project imho) is > using the Douay-Rheims translation as its source < > http://www.lojban.org/texts/translations/drbible/drbible.html#SEC_Top > >. I'm going to assume that the issues regarding translating from Hebrew & > Greek -> Latin -> English -> Lojban have already been discussed somewhere. > > But from a cultural standpoint, I wonder whether using a Christian > translation of Jewish texts (Old Testament) is a good idea. There has always > been a tendency in some strains of Christianity to consider the Old > Testament in light of the New Testament. Jews tend to be somewhere between > bemused and offended by this tendency, since of course their scriptures are > otherwise seen to stand on their own. And the Jews have their own > translations < http://www.mechon-mamre.org/e/et/et0.htm > < > http://www.chabad.org/library/archive/LibraryArchive.asp?AID=63255 > >. > > I realize of course that a good deal of work has already been done on the > translation & mean no slight, but I thought it was a point worth bringing > up. > > mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.