Evangelicals Tussle Over Jews, Gender In New Bible

Jerusalem Post / AP ^

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

This is absolute blasphemy!GOD did not authorize this and my advice to these people is you better not do it as you may have to answer for it!

[BibChr]

Having studied Biblical Hebrew and Greek for well over 25 years, I'm pretty interested in the ENGLISH STANDARD BIBLE. It's fundamentally literal (like the NASB, NKJV), but is quite readable.

This stupid move is probably the best thing that could happen to the ESB. The publication of the ESB may be later looked back on as we look back to 1611.

Dan

[TwoBear]

Bump for Later Reading.

[Theo]

God the Father is masculine, not male.

[Theo]

Another danger of this translation is that it translates some words plural (e.g., "they") when the text specifically intends for them to be singular(e.g., "he"). It can be significant, when Scripture is talking of the responsibility of the individual (as opposed to a group) for one's sins, for example.

We need to think outside of this PC decade and learn that when Scripture says "he" it usually means the singular neuter pronoun. *We* need to change, not Scripture.

[winstonchurchill]

Simply let the Holy Bible say what it says and decide to reject or accept it on that basis alone.

Yes, that is the point. The process is called 'translation', not 'rewriting'. The libs wish the original language said something other than what it says, but when the process becomes making it say what you wish it had said, there is no end -- and no reliability.

I agree with the comments on reading the Greek, but for most that simply isn't a reasonable opportunity. When we can't teach Americans to read English above an 8th grade level, it is wishful thinking to think we can teach koine Greek.

Whatever translation methodologies are employed, there must be a commitment to translating what is in the original, not what some group or other (or even the translator) wishes were there.

[Jagdgewehr]

I Agree.