Ok, nice. So I think the first thing to decide is what perspective we would like to have when we're interpreting/translating the Bible. Every kind of church have their own opinion about how to interpret different things, and they translate in accordance with their own beliefs. The Bible is also probably the most quoted work in the history. What's the impact if the lojbanic community later is translating works where the Bible is quoted? Which version does the work in that case refer to? How have Biblical concepts developed historically? How does people now and in the past understand these concepts? I'm just saying that if we're constructing new lujvos and fu'ivlas for important concepts in the Bible, that's quite normative, is representing just a certain point of view and might influence later lojbanic translations. Should we even call our translation the Bible? Shouldn't we recognize it's origin and pay more attention to the Jewish Tradition, and consider the Tanakh (Old Testament) as a work separated from the New Testament? And how do we reason when tertau, single brivla or whole phrases/sentences are meant to be interpreted metaphorically? Do we have to mark every metaphorical construction with {pe'a}? Or what about idiomatic expressions/"dead metaphors"? I think our translation should be close to how the work was interpreted at the time it was written. And I think we should translate expressions like "the ones who urinate on the wall" as {ro le prenu poi pincyvi'i re'o [?] lo bitmu} or similar rather than {ro nanmu} even if this might offend some Christians. Ok, I just think we should think about things like this before starting the translation process. What's the purpose. To be a literal translation of an important historical literal work and/or to be a lojbanic version of the canonical text of some religion or something else? Just think about it. /Sebastian Skickat från min iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. |