...
Howerver, the philosophy of the modern idiomatic translations, on the basis
of which you criticize a uniform rendering of NP$, works in the opposite
direction. ...
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I heartily disagree with you that sentences in an English Bible with the
word "soul" are "extremely misleading". ... In "The Concise Oxford
Thesaurus" five different entries are found under "soul". Number 3 is:
""not a soul in sight", person. human being, being, individual, creature."
Thus, the most normal Hebrew reference of NP$ has its counterpart i the
modern English "soul". ...
... The philosophical view that Bible readers can
misunderstand the English word "soul," and therefore its use is "extremely misleading" is
in my view wrong. ...
... When reading the Bible, people should use their mental
faculties and find the references and meanings of the words by help of the
context. People are prevented from this when more than thirty English words
are used for the single Hebrew word NP$. Below I will illustrate this by a
comparison of three passages in the literal NWT and the idiomatic NIV.
... Instead of viewing the NWT
renderings as "extremely misleading" I think they are very informative. By the help of such a uniform rendering the readers can see that any hint of a disembodied soul is nonexistent in the Tanakh. ...
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