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Bible - Alternative Translation
- Thread starter Rhadamanthus
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fallingblood
Agnostic Theist
What's cool about translating texts written in languages you can't read? Especially if your intention is to then make claims about how your translation is somehow superior to those who have spent years studying the language, texts, culture, etc., behind the texts?
Rhadamanthus
Limenoscopus
I am further analyzing Genesis 2 and 3 and i now understand more of its context
What was Eve's Punishment for Eating Fruit
generations in Sin? NOPE, the actual punishment was the
PAINS of Childbirth
Genesis 3:14.
Jove said to Nachash, because you done this, you are cursed above the cattle and beasts of the field, upon your belly you away from land, you shalt be devoured the days of your life
(Nacash/Serpent) his punished was his Flesh being eaten for every? day of his Life
(parallels with Greek Prometheus whom had flesh devoured every day, for trying to turn Man into Gods in the human creation account
Genesis 3:16.
He told the woman, I will make her Labour painfull and here pregnancy painful , and in pain, shalt bring forth a son, and desire her husband to rule over her
What was Eve's Punishment for Eating Fruit
generations in Sin? NOPE, the actual punishment was the
PAINS of Childbirth
Genesis 3:14.
Jove said to Nachash, because you done this, you are cursed above the cattle and beasts of the field, upon your belly you away from land, you shalt be devoured the days of your life
(Nacash/Serpent) his punished was his Flesh being eaten for every? day of his Life
(parallels with Greek Prometheus whom had flesh devoured every day, for trying to turn Man into Gods in the human creation account
Genesis 3:16.
He told the woman, I will make her Labour painfull and here pregnancy painful , and in pain, shalt bring forth a son, and desire her husband to rule over her
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Still making it up as you go along, I see. If you don't like criticism of your creative exercise, which, I may add, has nothing to do with reality or the scripture in the original context, I suggest you take your ball(this translation) and go home.
Rhadamanthus
Limenoscopus
as i said, don't like, don't comment.
I translate, and by reading similar materials that i have read, like Greek Scriptures to better understand the context. Adam and Eve has the same context as Epimethius(as adam), Prometheus(as serpent) and Pandora(as eve) of Greece, that tell the tale of the first woman being tempted the knowledge of the gods. (theogony)
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and as I said, don't like criticism, GTFO.
You can't be serious. You can't be calling what you're doing "translating". This is starting to smell like trolling, seriously. Do some actual scholarship before you decide to call your work "translation".
Rhadamanthus
Limenoscopus
My Subject area is mythology, that is all. which is what i am reading as i read genesis
That is a matter of opinion.
Personally, I thought your subject area was ********, considering how much of it you were spewing.
But you aren't reading it. You're attempting to translate it from a language to can't read. And despite not having even a basic grasp of hebrew grammar, or any expertise in linguistics, translation, semitic languages, or the scholarship relating to current translations, you think you can offer something that people who have actual expertise somehow missed. They can read the language, they've studied it, but armed with a dictionary and no expertise in anything relating to the language or translation, you can show them all wrong.
Rhadamanthus
Limenoscopus
It is a subject of Mythology, first then language second, and i have READ them, The Greek, Egyptian and Babylonian creation accounts and Analysed the Words that are used in Genesis. The Bible is dependent on these extra-biblical literature to understand it better.
I assume you've never read any of them in original language, meaning you've never actually read any of them, making your assertion...
EDIT: Also, the Bible is dependent on extra-biblical literature? Since when?
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The "subject" is irrelevant. Translation is NOT the subject of mythology, whether you are translating Homers Iliad, Ovid's Metamorphoses, or Genesis. Translating requires first and foremost a thorough understanding of both languages (source and target) involved. Other things (such as the culture behind the language and text, mythological context, genre, etc.) are certainly relevant. But if you don't know the language, you have no business translating anything written in it.
And anybody who studies Greek, Roman, Egyptian, or any other mythology with any degree of expertise spends yeares studying Greek, Latin, and any other language the relevant texts are written in.
The "subject" is irrelevant. Translation is NOT the subject of mythology, whether you are translating Homers Iliad, Ovid's Metamorphoses, or Genesis. Translating requires first and foremost a thorough understanding of both languages (source and target) involved. Other things (such as the culture behind the language and text, mythological context, genre, etc.) are certainly relevant. But if you don't know the language, you have no business translating anything written in it.
Rhadamanthus
Limenoscopus
Attack what i translated instead of autistic statements then. that is why i
came here.
Attack the messenger and not message, instead of flooding thread
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Rakhel
Well-Known Member
"autistic statements"?
"Attack the messenger and not the message"?
please, by all means, translate that.
Rhadamanthus
Limenoscopus
Rhadamanthus
Limenoscopus
I am not a Christian, thus i am not antisemitic
You delete my last sentence, for you Ignorant
Rakhel
Well-Known Member
wait a minute...What?
What in the world does being Christian have to do with antisemitism?
They are not the same thing.
What does first clause have to do with the second?
Can we aim for coherence? I know you can at least partially succeed if you try.