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Jewish New Testament voices: the case of Matthew 7
The word “Christian” does not appear in the original text [of the New Testament]. It is the Greek word for “messianic,” an adjective describing what Jews had always been. — Willis Barnstone The only...
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The Rudest Translation (of Jesus, on Good Friday)
Here is the rudest translation (of Jesus, on Good Friday): 33 “We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Human Being will be betrayed to the chief priests and Bible scholars. They will condemn him to...
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Hal Taussig’s “A New New Testament” (and the Open English Bible)
Today’s mail brought Haul Taussig’s A New New Testament, yet another new translation that combines Christian canonical scripture with Christian apocryphal works (a notable recent entry in this category...
View ArticleThe Pope and 7 Other Translators
Pope Francis in a tv interview recently suggested a particular translation of what we know as Matthew 6:13a. For what’s in The Lord’s Prayer, for this Greek in the New Testament, καὶ μὴ εἰσενέγκῃς ἡμᾶς...
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it’s a girl: the Greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven
Greek New Testament translator Ann Nyland has the following footnote on Matthew 18.2: Bible versions traditionally translate the personal pronoun here as ‘him’, but the personal pronoun in the Greek is...
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