Biblical Hebrew Forum

[mjoseph <mjoseph AT terminal.cz>]

In response to (I think) Andew Kulikovsky's:

>> Why is every Biblical language list full of Jehovah's Witnesses trying
>> to
>> defend their idiosyncratic New World Translation, which is quite literal
>> and
>> conventional except when the verse states or alludes to the divinity of
>> Christ???

Wes Williams wrote:

>Likely for the same reasons that Catholics, Methodists, Baptists, Jews,
>Presbyterians, Lutherans, and Mystical Mennonites explain their scriptural
>reasons when asked about scriptures in the versions and translations they
>use.

I haven't seen any avowedly Catholic, Baptist, Jewish, Presbyterian, or 
Lutheran theology on this list, nor any defense of same. I have seen, on 
this list and on b-Greek, many attempts to present Arian theology in the 
guise of linguistics.

>We surely should reflect tolerance to another list member's theology
>while all focus on the merits of a language issue itself.

Absolutely right. That is what I tried to do in my post, and what others 
have tried to do in theirs.

Mark Joseph