Genesis, Zen, and Quantum Physics: The Quantum Translation of Genesis

[Railazel]

Here is the translation of Genesis based on Ancient Hebrew according to the research of Jeff A. Benner and Michael Calpino:

Genesis 1
Within the Beginning, he filled the powers, the skies and the land. The land, she existed empty and unfilled. And a chaos was over the faces of the deep. And the wind of the Powers brooded over the faces of the waters. And he said, “the Powers be revealed by the light, and the light illuminated.” The Powers saw the beauty of the light and he divided the Powers between the ordered light and the chaotic darkness. And he called the Powers for order “light” and for chaos he called “darkness.” And there were Powers for watching chaos and Powers for illuminating order, a unified work in chaos. And he said the Powers will spread out a sheet through waters. And he caused a separating out of the waters to waters. And the Powers spread out the sheet separating out the waters from the bottom side belonging to the sheet and separating the water out from the top side belonging to the sheet. And he stood firm. And he called the Powers belonging to the sheet “sky.” And there were Powers for watching chaos and Powers for illuminating order, a second work in chaos. And he said, “The Powers will gather and watch the waters
from under the skies move toward one place and dry land will
be presented.” And he stood firm. And he called the Powers belonging to the dry ground “land,” and he called the waters belonging to the collection, “sea.” And the Powers saw the beauty. And he said, “Powers bring forth young green plants on the land. Sow seed of fruit trees, producing fruit for its continuing its offspring whose seed is in it all over the land.” And he stood firm. The Land brought forth young green plants, sowing seed, for continuing his offspring. And trees produced fruit whose seed is in it for continuing its offspring. And the Powers saw the beauty. And there were Powers for
watching chaos and Powers for illuminating order, a third work
in chaos. And he said, “Powers become a great light in the sheet of the
skies for a dividing between the light and the darkness. And they are placed there for marking the way and for a witness and for working chaos and for years.” And they were set as lights in the sheet of the skies for the lighting over the land and he stood firm. And he made the powers, the two large lights and the stars, the large light for a ruler of the work in chaos and the
small light for a ruler of the darkness. And he gave them Powers in the sheet of the skies for the light over the land. And for ruling within a work in chaos and within the darkness and for separating between the light and the chaotic
darkness, and the Powers saw the beauty. And there were Powers for watching chaos and Powers for illuminating order, a
fourth work in chaos. And he said, “The Powers swarm the waters, a swarm of
nefesh chayah. And a flyer flies over the land, over the faces of the sheet of the skies. And the Powers filled the big tananim and all nefesh of the chayah the crawling one who swarms the waters to her bloodline and all flyers of the wing to her bloodline. And the Powers saw the beauty. And the Powers
knelt to them to say bear fruit and become great and complete,
the waters in the seas and the flyers will become great in the land. And there were Powers for watching chaos and Powers for illuminating order, a fifth work in chaos. And he said, “Powers bring forth the nefesh chayah of the land to her bloodline, a walker and a crawler and his chayah of land belonging to her bloodline.” And he stood firm. And the Powers aligned the chayah of the land to her bloodline and the walker to her bloodline and all the crawler of the ground to his bloodline. And the Powers saw the beauty. And the Powers
said, “We will make an adam in our shadow, like our origin. And they journeyed among the swimmers of the sea and among the flyers of the skies and among the walkers and among all the land and among all the crawlers over the land.” And he commanded and the Powers filled the man with his shadow, with the shadow of the Powers he filled him, mind and womb he filled them. The Powers knelt to them and the Powers said to them, “Bear fruit and become great, and complete the land and rule her, and journey among the swimmers of the sea and among the fliers of the skies and among all the chayah crawling
on the land.” And the Powers said, “Look, I gave to you(plural) the whole green plant, a seeding of seed which is over the face of all the land and the whole of the tree which in him a fruit tree a seeding a seed, for you(plural). He will mediate for food.” “And all green plants are for all the life of the land and for all the flyers of the skies and for all the crawlers over the land which is in him nefesh chayah.” And he stood firm. And the Powers saw all
that he became and look, an all encompassing beauty. And there
were Powers for watching chaos and Powers for illuminating
order, the sixth work in chaos.

Genesis 2
And they were completed, the sky and the land and all their army. And he completed the Powers in the seventh work of chaos, his instructions which he filled and he stopped in the seventh work of chaos, from all his instructions which he filled. And the Powers knelt on the seventh work in chaos and
He(Powers)assigned him(Shabbat) because in him He(Ayn Soph) stopped from all his instructions which he filled the Powers for function. These are offspring of the skies and land in their being made full, in a work of chaos YHVH the Powers made land and skies. And all plant life of the field, that existed before in the land and all plants of the field before they will grow because YHVH
the Powers had not caused rain over the land and without an
adam for serving the ground. And mist came up from the land
and gave drink to all the faces of the ground. And YHVH the
Powers pressed out the adam of the multitude from Ha’adamah.
And he blew into his nostrils a nesh’mat chayim and the adam
existed for the nefesh chayah. And YHVH the Powers established a protected region in Eden from ancient times. And he placed there the adam whom he
molded. And YHVH the Powers grew from the ground all the trees that were pleasing to the sight and good for food, trees of the chayim in the middle of the protected region and the trees of the experience of function and dysfunction. And a river comes out from eden to give drink to the protected region and from there it spreads out. And it goes to the four kings. The
name of the one is Pishon. It is the one that circles around all the land of the Havilah, where the gold is. And the gold of that land is beautiful. The b’dolach is there and the shoham stone. And the name of the second river is Gihon. It is the one that circles around the land of Cush. And the name of the third
river is Hiddekel. It is the one that walks the ancient path. And
the fourth river, it is the Parat. And YHVH the Powers took the adam and he settled him in the protected region of Eden to work her and to protect her.
And YHVH the Powers commanded over the man saying, “from all the trees of the protected region you will utterly devour. “And from the trees of the experience of function and dysfunction you will not eat from them because in the day you eat from them, a death you will die.” And YHVH the Powers said, “It is not good for the existence of the adam to be alone, I will provide for him a helper like his story.” And YHVH the Powers pressed out from Ha’adamah
all the chayah of the field and all the flyers of the skies. And
He(YHVH) came to the adam to see who he would call to himself, and all that he will call to himself, the adam of nefesh, that will become his character/breath. And the adam met the characters/breaths belonging to all the walkers, and to the flyers of the skies and to all the chayah of the field. And for adam no helper was found like his story. And YHVH the Powers fell as a trance on the adam and he slept. And he took a unity from his tzel’ot and he closed flesh under it. And YHVH the Powers rebuilt the tzela that he took
from the adam for a woman and she came to the adam. And the adam spoke this poem, “bone from my bone and flesh from
my flesh.” Because of this he will meet woman because from the
man she had received this. Therefore man will leave his father and his mother and he will join in his woman and they will become unified flesh. And the two of them were enlightened beings, the adam and his woman, and they were not disappointed in each other.

Genesis 3
And the nechash had been enlightened from out of all the chayah of the field who YHVH the Powers made. And he said to the woman of passion, “Because the Powers said ‘you(plural) will not eat from all the trees of the protected place.’” But the woman said to the nachash, “From the fruit of the trees of the protected region we will eat. And from the fruit of the trees
that are in the middle of the protected region the Powers said ‘you(plural) will not eat from them and you(plural)will not approach them or you will die.’” And the nechash said to the woman, “No, ‘a death will you die.’ For the Powers know for in the day of your(plural) eating from them and your(plural) eyes will be opened and you(plural) will be like the Powers knowing function
and dysfunction.” And the woman saw that the function of the tree was for food and that it was a delight to the eyes and the tree was desirable
for knowledge. And she took from its fruit and she ate and she gave also to her man with her and he ate. And the eyes of the two of them opened and they knew that they were enlightened and they sewed fig leaves and they made themselves aprons. And they heard the sound of YHVH the Powers walking in the protected region because of the wind of the work in chaos. And the adam and his woman hid themselves from the face of YHVH the Powers in the middle of the trees of the protected region. And YHVH the Powers called to the Adam and said to him, “How?” And he said, “Your sound I heard in the
protected region and I was afraid because I am enlightened and I hid myself.” And he said, “Who proclaimed to you that you were enlightened? The tree species which I commanded you to not eat from, you ate.” And the adam said, “The woman who you gave my support, she gave to me from the trees and I ate.” And YHVH the Powers said to the woman, “What is this you did?” And the woman said, “The nechash deceived me and I ate.” And YHVH the Powers said to the nechash, “Because you did this, cursed are you from all the walkers and from all the chayah of the field. On your belly she will walk and the multitude you will eat all the days of your life. And enmity I will make between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will strike you, the head, and you will strike us, the heel.” To the woman he says, “I will greatly increase the your labor and your pregnancy, in pain you will bear children and to your man is your desire and he will rule in you.” And to Adam he said, “Because you listened to the voice of your woman and you ate from the tree which I commanded you saying, ‘you will not eat from him,’ the ground is cursed in your production. In pain you will eat of her all the days of your life. And she(the ground) will cause brambles and weeds to grow for you and you will eat the green plants of the field. “With the sweat of your nostrils you will eat bread again. You returned to Ha’adamah given that from her you were taken, given that a multitude are you and to the multitude you
will return.” And Adam met the character of his woman. He declared that
she was the mother of all the living ones. YHVH of the Powers made for the adam and his woman coverings of skin and he clothed them. And YHVH the Powers said, “Look the man is like a unity apart from us knowing function and dysfunction and now turning, will send his hand and will take also from the trees of the chayim and will eat and live forever.” And YHVH of the Powers sent him from the protected region in Eden to serve Ha’adamah, which is where he was taken from. And he cast out the adam. And he caused the keruvim and the lahat of the revolving sword, to dwell from the ancient times for the protected region in Eden, to guard the road of the trees of life.

A very interesting translation.

 

[TasteForTruth]

That is interesting, indeed.

 

[Ran77]

Extremely interesting. Thank you for sharing it.

 

[Railazel]

One of the things that I like is the capitalization of "Beginning", making it an actual entity as opposed to just a temporal setting and how the Powers act as not only creative agents but as the very source of all exist within the Beginning (note the lack of capitalization in the first verse for the word "powers" and the subsequent capitalization of it after despite them being the same word).

 

[drstevej]

Do you recommend this because you like what it says or because it is faithful to the Hebrew account of Genesis?

 

[drstevej]

Credentials of the authors:

Jeff Benner

I am also frequently asked for my "credentials" to teach Hebrew. Well, I guess I don't have any unless you count the thousands of hours I have spent in research and study.

Michael Calpino

If this is the same Michael Calpino listed on this book for Amazon then his FB account lists his credentials as a bachelors in Religion and Philosophy from Albright College and a MAR from Liberty University.

 

[Der Alte]

Credentials of the authors:

Jeff Benner

Michael Calpino

If this is the same Michael Calpino listed on this book for Amazon then his FB account lists his credentials as a bachelors in Religion and Philosophy from Albright College and a MAR from Liberty University.

For Benner isn't that what is known as autodidact? The problem I see with Benner's unstructured self learning approach is one's own opinons, presuppositions, etc. become the standard. I'm sure that you even more so than I know the reality of having to "stand and deliver" defend our translation of the OT or NT text before a professor or board with considerable more knowledge than we have. Fortunately we do not have to rely on the acrobatic interpretations of the Brenners of this world. For an accurate translation of the OT I recommend the 1917 Jewish Publication Society translation. No Christian bias. No Catholic or protestant bias. No Trinitarian bias. I found one site which has the JPS, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Kaplan versions. Jewish Bible (JPS 1917)

 

[Yekcidmij]

I guess the word "translation" is used rather loosely (as I just used the term "rather loosely" rather loosely).

 

[Railazel]

Do you recommend this because you like what it says or because it is faithful to the Hebrew account of Genesis?

Both, actually. I like it because it is different but I'm sharing it primarily to show how different our translation of the first three chapters are from the original Hebrew.

 

[Der Alte]

Both, actually. I like it because it is different but I'm sharing it primarily to show how different our translation of the first three chapters are from the original Hebrew.

What you posted in the OP is not the original Hebrew but a questionable "translation" by two relatively unknown people with unknown qualifications. For translations close to the original Hebrew, I suggest, the 1917 Jewish Publication Society translation, the LXX, and the Targums. All translations by Hebrew speaking Jewish scholars and all available online.

 

[Railazel]

What you posted in the OP is not the original Hebrew but a questionable "translation" by two relatively unknown people with unknown qualifications.

I, for one, don't really care for that. I just want to hear thoughts on the translation, not its authors.

 

[timewerx]

Translation technicalities aside, God let me felt something beyond the Universe. It's utterly overwhelming in the most terrifying manner. Even the visible Universe seemed recoiled in terror. This Universe we see will be no more.

I'm not trying to sound like Mr Novelist, I've had those vivid dreams from childhood. God is really really angry how we have disobeyed Him and followed this world instead.

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[Der Alte]

I, for one, don't really care for that. I just want to hear thoughts on the translation, not its authors.

I gave you my thoughts on both. The closest to the original Hebrew is the three Jewish translations I cited. Why would anyone want to refer to a questionable translation?

 

[timewerx]

I, for one, don't really care for that. I just want to hear thoughts on the translation, not its authors.

I think it is important, if the translation is proven to be bad, there's no further point in discussing.

GIGO - garbage in >> garbage out.

I for one when looking at Greek or Hebrew translations of the New Testament, cross check three translations - biblehub.com, perseus.tufts.edu, and finally, google translate. Google translate is the worst of them. Perseus.tufts is a secular site so good for unbiased cross-checking but sadly, it doesn't have Hebrew.

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[gord44]

God is really really angry how we have disobeyed Him and followed this world instead.

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I doubt that. You make God sound like some grumpy old man. Don't project your emotions onto the Almighty.