Re:Religious fervour is migrating into politics
by text70 on Sunday March 28, 2021 @11:50AM
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I like to chalk it up to just a bit of lost in translation, but I know it is probably more complex than that. Think about going from early Aramaic/Hebrew, to Latin, Greek and Turkish, to medieval Italian, German and Slavic, to Old English and French, to Modern English. You are bound to lose the real meaning of the original texts after several millennia in the game of lingual telephone.
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Re:Religious fervour is migrating into politics
by phd514 on Monday March 29, 2021 @08:22AM
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Translations are usually done directly from the original language into the target language. The study of early Hebrew and Aramaic and Koine Greek remains an active field and there are lots of people who can read those languages fluently.