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ivrit-tirvi | on: Seven books I keep close because I love them
I always look it up in the original Hebrew if I really want to understand, and the difference is sometimes really HUGE (or simply wrong in modern translations).

It's also worth noting that some books of the Hebrew Bible are poetry (Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Song of Songs), which doesn't show at all after translation. Hebrew poetry is unique!

As they say, reading the Bible in translation is like "kissing your spouse through a veil".

1123581321 | parent | next
Through a glass darkly, if you will. :)
agaj-nimm | root | parent
Have you read Patton's poem by that title? It's not great but it's a fascinating window into the beliefs of a major historical figure.

In my experience there's a lot of support for reincarnation in judeo-christian scripture, when you read it open to that interpretation.

Ardren | parent
> I always look it up in the original Hebrew if I really want to understand

Why do you assume a entire team of biblical scholars, working for years to translate the Old Testement for the NIV didn't know what they were doing?

But you do?

rurp | root | parent | next
Translations are inherently lossy, especially for cases like the bible that use less common dialects and have conflicting source versions. Are any biblical translators claiming that their work is a 100% reproduction of the original? I doubt it. Most I'm familiar with readily acknowledge that it's a very messy process and two experts acting in good faith will produce different translations in many cases.
archonis | root | parent | next
The Gell-Mann amnesia effect also applies to the majority of translations.
jibal | root | parent
> Why do you assume a entire team of biblical scholars, working for years to translate the Old Testement for the NIV didn't know what they were doing?

That assumption does not appear anywhere in their comment.

Your rude strawman question only makes sense if assuming that ivrit-tirvi is not a fluent speaker of Hebrew and is somehow translating the Hebrew into something else that they understand ... which is extremely unlikely, since ivrit (עִבְרִית) is the Hebrew word for the Hebrew language.

And the NIV translation into English reflects ideological interpretation.