History #38 ✡ The PROBLEM with the Salkinson and Delitzsch Hebrew New Testaments
Messianic History: Return of the Jewish Jesus
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No translation is perfect. Thought-for-thought paraphrases make for smoother reading but aren't as true to the original; literal word-for-word translations stick closer to the source text but often feel stiff and clunky. In his analysis of 'The Two Hebrew New Testaments' S. R. Driver gave words to the tensions that readers and scholars alike felt as they compared the Salkinson-Ginsburg and Delitzsch versions. This is our third session springboarding from Driver's review into a deep-dive comparison between the dynamic and formal equivalents of Isaac S. and Franz D. To keep things fun we'll also point out imprecatory phrases for you to playfully use on your family members and indulge in some gematria.
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