At 01:45 PM 12/22/2004, you wrote:
Yes, this is precisely as I said.
george
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Now make up your mind. Are you using paraphrase as Peter is or as the dictionary is- because you seem to be changing your mind. A paraphrase is taking words and simplifying them for a wider audience- which is what the NWT does. ...
... It is not a translation- as I have already said. It is a paraphrase. A translation renders, as closely as possible, words from one language into another. The American Standard Version is a translation; the NIV is a paraphrase, as are most modern renderings. Why? because their interest is not in translating words ...
... - but "ideas" and hence they paraphrase. ...
... The KJV is a paraphrase as well, seeing as how it simply paraphrased Wycliffe and other english versions (while of course pretending to consult the originals). ...
... If you want to translate hebrew into english that's one thing. Something totally separate is taking what you think the words mean and rendering them in another way in order to simplify for the unwashed masses.
Yes, but the difference is in a quite different place from where you think it is.
There is, in sum, a great difference between translating, translations; paraphrasing, and paraphrases.
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