fundamental to their whole method that the basic unit of translation is
the individual word. If they had abandoned this wrong idea they would
indeed have produced a better translation. Since you are saying that
they should have changed their fundamental philosophy, you can hardly
claim to agree with them.
...
Also as the word soul in English means 'immortal immaterial part of a
person
which survives the death of the body' this was a very poor choice in a
translation
whose aim is to demonstrate that such was not the biblical meaning.
Althoug, I
have to admit that I struggle to find a single English word which
captures the
concept which the combination of all its uses conveys.
Of course you struggle. For this is the fundamental falllacy of the
literal translation method used in NWT, the presumption that there is a
single English word, or even a short phrase, which corresponds even
approximately to the full range of meaning of a Hebrew word. In general
there is no one word in language B which corresponds to all the senses
of a word in language A; language simply does not work like that.
--Best regards
Peter Kirk
peter AT qaya.org (personal)
peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
http://www.qaya.org/
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