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  • From: Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>
  • To: M bauer <tnaswg AT yahoo.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] translation v. interpretation
  • Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:05:17 +0000

On 02/03/2006 00:01, M bauer wrote:
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 ...

You are correct, of course, but the original issue was about the Hebrew Bible and not other holy writings. But in practice the large majority of languages don't have any holy writings of any kind, not least because very many of them don't have any kind of writing at all. Also many religions discourage translation of their holy books.

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