[b-hebrew] translation v. interpretation

M bauer tnaswg at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 1 19:01:02 EST 2006


My reading is that it is 3/4 of the 8000 dialects/languages are without any of what the Xtians call holy writings. Let us remember that many cultures have their own holy writings and call into mind you Xtians what the first several verses of Chapter two and the first five or so verse of Chapter 14 of Romans says.
   
  Regards,
   
  Marc Bauer
   
  PS: If I am out of line with this, please let me know off-line. I have this subscription not for faith reasons, but for learning about Hebrew, where there is truly some difference.

Peter Kirk <peter at qaya.org> wrote:
  On 25/02/2006 21:16, Herman Meester wrote:
> ... I think modern Hebrew is about the only language left
> the Bible has not been translated to!
> 

Sadly this is far from true. According to 
http://www.wycliffe.org/language/statistics.htm,
> *Of the 6,809 languages on earth
 /(as of December 2003)/*
> *405* *Languages with adequate whole Bible*
>
> *1034* *Languages with adequate New Testament*
>
There may be some languages with translations of the Hebrew Bible but 
not of the New Testament, but the implication here is that there is no 
translation of the Hebrew Bible into well over 90% of the world's languages.


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Peter Kirk
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