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Old 08-13-2013, 12:42 PM   #21
Slonopotam845

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Heck, scholars cannot even agree on the meaning of books written in English in the last 50 years... Before I would use some version of the Bible to call a stranger a sinner I would consider that.
You've just described the process of literary scholarship. That sort of discourse is how the academic study of the humanities is accomplished.
Can you give me an example of how, for example, the koine Greek of the New Testament is impossible to translate into English? What is it about 1st-century Jewish society under Roman rule that's so hard to communicate in modern language? I am having difficulty seeing how your critical thinking has brought you to this place of intellectual fatalism.
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Old 08-13-2013, 12:42 PM   #22
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Heck, scholars cannot even agree on the meaning of books written in English in the last 50 years... Before I would use some version of the Bible to call a stranger a sinner I would consider that.
You've just described the process of literary scholarship. That sort of discourse is how the academic study of the humanities is accomplished.
Can you give me an example of how, for example, the koine Greek of the New Testament is impossible to translate into English? What is it about 1st-century Jewish society under Roman rule that's so hard to communicate in modern language? I am having difficulty seeing how your critical thinking has brought you to this place of intellectual fatalism.
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