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Re: Bible ? Quran ? Torah ?
de John Hood 04/15/2006 12:56
Al Klein wrote:
>On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 03:25:33 GMT, John Hood <JohnHood@wi.rr.com>
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>>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.
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>What *WE* call the Old Testament - in Hebrew - isn't a translation
>from anything.
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>> 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.
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>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.
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Ok, fine whatever. That's not what you said originally, let's drop it.
Back to freeware eveyone.
John H.