T. E. B.

[Bon]

Has anyone ever heard of this new version of the Bible, currently in production?

Sounds interesting.....tell me what you think.

http://www.centuryone.org/obpindex.html

Shalom from Bon

[Shamash Of Yeshua]

I find the samples very interesting. But remember I am not a scholar.

Shalom,

Tag

[Bon]

Thanks Tag :)

Anyone else? :wave:

[plum]

I'm really enjoying the "concept" section. It looks like a "good read" to me! I could never claim any kind of knowledge about translations, but I like its way of bringing in as much of the original feel, flow, style, and sound as possible (if that is possible from one language to the next).


In Genesis 2:7 (TEB) “man became a living life-breather” which is the precise term used for the breathing animals in Genesis 1:20. The NIV and the NRSV not only lose the idiom, but, for the man they put “living being” and for the animals they put “living creatures,” injecting an interpretive notion into the English that is completely absent from the Hebrew. Older translations, such as the KJV, even have here “man became a living soul,” interjecting an unwarranted theological element. Here is a case where the loss of the idiom robs one of more than the colorful beauty of the language, it also interjects notions that one assumes are there when they are not. Interesting!