From the NWT rendering readers will understand that animals *are* souls, butthis is taken away from NIV.
From the NWT the readers will understand that man does not have a soul but*is* a soul; this important teaching is taken away from NIV.
From the NWT the readers will understand that the soul can die, but this istaken away from the NIV
On 18/03/2006 11:30, Rolf Furuli wrote:
Dear Peter,
I will not start a theological discussion in any form, only make a few
observations. The Old Testament part of many (I think I am justified in
saying "most") modern Bible translations is translated in the light of
the New Testament. ...
I am happy to say that the Hebrew Bible translation which I worked on, in
common with all such translations sponsored by the United Bible Societies,
was specifically intended to be translated in its own right as a work in
Hebrew concerning Israelite history and religion, and not in the light of
the New Testament. Of course as the translators are Christians they cannot
entirely avoid bringing in Christian and New Testament insights. But it
was a deliberate policy to avoid this as far as possible, and the UBS
Translation Consultant enforced this rigorously.
I would not disagree with the rest of what you write here except for:
... what returns according to the writer of this Psalm, Daniel and otherIt is extremely misleading in these sentences to use the English word
books of the Tanakh is the soul (the very person). Thus, some books of
the Tanakh teaches the resurrection of the soul.
"soul". What you mean is the NP$, and as such I agree. But the English
word "soul" in itself implies the Greek concept of an immaterial part of
the person, not the whole person, which survives death. In this sense the
Tanakh teaches nothing at all about the soul, and certainly not its
resurrection.
Of course the real problem here is the misleading use of "soul" for NP$ in
English Bible translations, based on Greek and Latin translations and
patristic theology in which NP$ was misunderstood to refer to the Greek
concept of the "soul". But I have indicated to you in the past, I'm not
sure about on this list, that one of the worst errors of the New World
Translation (which it adopted from KJV or earlier) is its consistent use
of "soul" for NP$.
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Peter Kirk
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