Start at this page in this very thread.....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2618333/posts?q=1&;page=901
907 was the exorcism prayer.
Read down through 915 to get the gist of the conversation.
On the contrary about Latin. The OT was written in Hebrew and Aramaic and the NT in Greek and Aramaic.
The Latin Vulgate came around much later is is a translation itself. Anyone who uses that as the basis for a translation is using a translation of a translation, which allows for even more error to creep in as even more is lost in multiple translations.
Going back to the oldest original language manuscripts gives the best opportunity for as accurate a translation as possible.
I agree 100%
"Going back to the oldest original language manuscripts gives the best opportunity for as accurate a translation as possible."
One would think so, but sometimes the oldest extant copies of a piece of scripture, OT or NT, are a mess of mistakes and amendments and emendations. There are no really ancient complete copies of the NT, for example (there is a fragment of +John from the early 2nd century...in Greek). As for Hebrew in the OT, well the oldest copies of the Greek Septuagint are older than the Hebrew OT used by Protestants or Jews for that matter. I think the oldest fragment of the OT in Hebrew is from the 1st century BC.
No it wasn't. I was the author of #907 and I merely stated that an exorcism would do number of Freepers some good. The mod thought that was flame baiting and removed it. I stand behind my original statement.