If anyone is familiar with the New Perspective on Paul, I'm looking for a decent English translation that reflects it, or at least leaves the text ambiguous enough to be read either way (if that's possible!).
Any ideas?
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...Do not let me hear
Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,
Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
For example, translating Gk. pistis as "faithfulness" instead of "faith," and perhaps Gk. ergon tou nomou as something other than "works of the law"....
Ring any bells?
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...Do not let me hear
Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,
Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
I guess you could buy +Tom Wright's complete ... for Everyone series. (Hopefully when it's complete SPCK will publish the translation part of it in a single volume.)
__________________ Goodness is stronger than evil,
love is stronger than hate,
light is stronger than darkness,
life is stronger than death,
victory is ours through him who loved us.
(++Desmond Tutu)
Thanks, Ebia. I'm doing some research on that series now.
__________________
...Do not let me hear
Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,
Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
Why anyone would want the entire Bible in a 2000-page .docx is beyond me. However, by tomorrow the file should have loaded and I can have a look at Galatians (if I can find it!).
Thanks!
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...Do not let me hear
Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,
Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
Why anyone would want the entire Bible in a 2000-page .docx is beyond me. However, by tomorrow the file should have loaded and I can have a look at Galatians (if I can find it!).
__________________ Goodness is stronger than evil,
love is stronger than hate,
light is stronger than darkness,
life is stronger than death,
victory is ours through him who loved us.
(++Desmond Tutu)
Just flicking through the other translations I've got for (pocket) e-sword, I noticed NET also has 'faithfulness of Jesus Christ' there. Also available free for e-sword and others.
Interesting - I've got a printed copy on order and now I'm looking forward to reading it even more!
In fact, from Wikipedia's entry on the New Perspective on Paul:
Another related issue is the pistis Christou ('faith of Christ') debate. Paul several times uses this phrase at key points in his writings and it is linguistically ambiguous as to whether it refers to our faith in Christ ("objective genitive"), or Christ's own faithfulness to God ("subjective genitive"), or even our faith/faithfulness to God like that which Christ had ("adjectival genitive"). There is wide disagreement within the academic community over which of these is the best rendering. The NET Bible translation became the first mainstream English Bible translation to use a subjective genitive translation of this phrase.[15]
__________________ Goodness is stronger than evil,
love is stronger than hate,
light is stronger than darkness,
life is stronger than death,
victory is ours through him who loved us.
(++Desmond Tutu)
Last edited by ebia; 5th November 2009 at 07:25 PM.
complete jewish bible is pretty good in regards to the above issues.
Steve
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Blessed is the one coming in the name of ha’shem - בּרוּךְ הַבָּא בְּשֵׁם יְיָ
Now to Him who is able to keep you from falling..... be glory, majesty, dominion and authority for ever. (Jude) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thanks, cyberlizard, for pointing that out. CJB has other issues, in my opinion, but look at how they translate, say, Rom. 3:26
NASB: ...for the demonstration, I say, of [God's] righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
CJB: ...and it vindicates [God's] righteousness in the present age by showing that he is righteous himself and is also the one who makes people righteous on the ground of Yeshua's faithfulness.
Not bad.
__________________
...Do not let me hear
Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,
Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
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