Comments on: “Blank Slates” and Poor English Equal Bad Translation http://www.jasonstaples.com/blog/2009/blank-slates-and-poor-english-equal-bad-translation-32 The biblioblog and trivial ruminations of Jason A. Staples Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:49:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Wayne Leman http://www.jasonstaples.com/blog/2009/blank-slates-and-poor-english-equal-bad-translation-32/comment-page-1#comment-46 Wayne Leman Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:47:56 +0000 http://71.18.65.144/biblioblog/?p=32#comment-46 <i>by the time a person is qualified in the ancient languages, that person has all too often been educated out of his/her own native tongue and struggles to communicate in his/her own language.</i> So true, and it is refreshing to find some of them recognize this, as Dan Wallace has written: "At the same time, since those responsible for this new translation are primarily exegetes, our perspective is often so entrenched in the first-century world that we are blind as to how the English reader would look at the text today. Exegetes tend to produce a wooden translation without realizing it." The web address for the entire article is: http://bible.org/article/open-letter-regarding-net-bible-new-testament by the time a person is qualified in the ancient languages, that person has all too often been educated out of his/her own native tongue and struggles to communicate in his/her own language.

So true, and it is refreshing to find some of them recognize this, as Dan Wallace has written:

“At the same time, since those responsible for this new translation are primarily exegetes, our perspective is often so entrenched in the first-century world that we are blind as to how the English reader would look at the text today. Exegetes tend to produce a wooden translation without realizing it.”

The web address for the entire article is:
http://bible.org/article/open-letter-regarding-net-bible-new-testament

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