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Re: Bible ? Quran ? Torah ?
de Al Klein 04/14/2006 10:07
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 03:25:33 GMT, John Hood <JohnHood@wi.rr.com>
wrote:
>I will as soon as you go look up what you're actually talking about.
>What we in modern times call the "Old Testament", is a translation from
>the Hebrew.
What *WE* call the Old Testament - in Hebrew - isn't a translation
from anything.
> Why: What it was called when it was written and collected-
>was "Tanakh," a Hebrew acronym for "Torah, Nevi'im and Ketuvim" meaning
>"The law, the prophets, the writings." It was not "the Old Testament"
>until Christians got a hold of it and (*gasp!*) translated it, into
>Coptic, Latin, Greek - and several attempts at English leading up to the
>KJV.
Which has nothing to do with the fact that the Hebrew bible isn't a
translation from Hebrew, it *IS* Hebrew. If you insist on reading an
English mistranslation, that's you, that's not the bible.