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That bad of translations? Larry Send a noteboard - 12/01/2012 05:55:38 AM
The Aramaic is only relevant for the New Testament and small bits of the Old Testament, but Hebrew Old Testaments don't anachronistically translate those into Hebrew. Even so, it's clear that the original language of the New Testament was Greek. Even with Greek, the Septuagint is helpful to have for historical purposes but not strictly necessary.

As for English, sometimes I think the worst thing to ever happen was the translation of the Bible into English.


Or are you also thinking of those fundies who believe that the only true edition of the Bible is the King James edition? xx(
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