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Skriven 2008-05-24 22:57:00 av Dale Shipp (1:261/1466.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Michiel Van Der Vlist
Ärende: Re: Translations (was: C
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 -=> On 05-24-08  09:09,  Michiel Van Der Vlist <=-
 -=> spoke to Robert Bashe about Translations (was: Casus <=-

 DS>> careful to be faithful to the original.  I suspect that more than
 DS>> one translation authority had their own agenda -- and allowed that
 DS>> to color their interpretation.
 
 DS>> Perhaps that is one of the reasons why the Koran is not supposed
 DS>> to be translated?
 
 RB> You know, that particular thpought had never occurred to me up to now,
 RB> but you might just be right. An excellent point.

 MVDV> Or... perhaps the powers that be do not want the ordinary 
 MVDV> believer to read the word of God directly.

Actually, it is probably exactly the opposite.  They wanted the ordinary
believer to read the word of God directly, and not indirectly via some
translation.  Most Moslems are Arabic speakers, and those who are
converts tend to learn to read Arabic.

 MVDV> They want to
 MVDV> leave that in the hand of trusted intermediates like 
 MVDV> priests, rabby and immans. So that they can tell the masses 
 MVDV> how to read it and they can not check for themselves...

That was true when the masses were illiterate, but not so much today.

 MVDV> Why did catholics use Latin in their services until fairly recently?

So that they did not need to translate once again into the vernacular?
Tradition?  You might as well ask why do the Jewish people use Hebrew in
their services.

I'd venture to say that there is no simple reason, nor would I judge
what others choose to do when I have no direct concern in the matter.

                               Dale Shipp
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