Interesting to hear about these deliberately literal translations.
Can I ask one question about how literal they really are? I have a
test for those who insist on literal translations. How do their
translations render )EREK )APPAYIM in Exodus 34:6 etc? Do they say
that YHWH has a long nose, "length of nostrils" or something like
that? I have never heard of an English translation which does so and
so is truly and consistently literal.
Peter Kirk
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Subject: Bible translations
Author: furuli AT online.no at internet
Date: 09/03/1999 08:47
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I am aware of only two modern Bible translations that have translated
strictly literally, in order to let the target group get a feeling of the
original text, namely the NWT and The Schocken Bible, by Everett Fox (where
just one volume has been published).