Thread: Definitive Translation of Guru Granth Sahib ji, What Can We Learn From King James?
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Re: Definitive Translation of Guru Granth Sahib ji, What Can We Learn From King James?
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Originally Posted by curious seeker View Post
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The whole field of Bible translations is in deep doo doo. The Bible used to be translated basically by Bible Societies. These were non-profit. Supposedly it still is, but now the publishers have woken up to the fact that the Bible is Big Business (By far the most sold book in the world) so while the Bible Societies are still supposedly in charge and supposedly Non-profit, in reality, the large publishers are given a ton of money to translators directly and to the Bible Societies employees as well. So it seems that every 6 months there is a new Bible version out,
Then there is far more ominous problem with Biblical High Criticism. You see the Bible , wonder of wonders , has a lot of credibility problems. During the last the last 200 and so years. Literary, form, and text critics have taken the Biblical manuscripts and have had a field day finding millions of varying readings, texts that seem to have copied each other many omissions and additions etc. In other words, it seems that the Infallible Word of God, as Xians pictured the Bible is not infallible after all ... go figure!
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I know. You are quite correct. So this problem is so intransigent and convoluted that I did not even go there. Tried to limit my remarks to a narrower range of concerns - more specifically translations of the Bible to fit/suit a particular political and historical moment in time. I doubt it has ever been different if we turn the pages of history allllllllllllllllll the way back to the translation of the Bible in to Latin. It is a long story, isn't it. Thanks
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