Re: [lojban] Translating the Bible

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

On Thursday, March 27, 2014 16:58:02 Sebastian wrote:
> Hi,
> translating the Bible would be awesome. I don't have much time though, but I
> might be able to help a little here and there, commenting stuff. What
> degree of ambitions are we talking about here? It took a group of
> professional linguistics, biblical experts and representatives of various
> religious organizations around 20 years to complete a translation of the
> Bible into Swedish (Bible 2000-version). So what's the ambition and
> competence in this project. Does anyone have at least basic knowledge of
> Biblical Hebrew and of the Biblical Contexts? I'm interested and have
> studied some Religion at the university here in Sweden, but I don't have
> knowledge about Biblical Hebrew. /seb

If you could translate sections and review sections others have translated, 
that would be great. Don't expect more than first draft quality until a lot of 
the Bible has been translated. If you can translate a passage from a few 
translations, that would be better than no translation at all.

I know New Testament Greek fairly well but sometimes run into a word I'm not 
sure how to translate. I know a little bit of Hebrew, but Mark Shoulson is 
better at it (not to mention Welsh and Klingon). I also have the NT in 
Aramaic; some words are familiar from Hebrew, others aren't. Half of Daniel is 
in Aramaic. The language changed from Daniel to the NT, but it's recognizably 
the same language, and even in Daniel there are some borrowings from Greek 
(sumponya, psanterin).

Pierre
-- 
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