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i don't think that's accurate.for instance, he seems to hold that the masoretic text (the basis for damned near every translation ever) is the work of some kind of evil jewish conspiracy to change what the text says with vowels. and that professional translators and hebrew scholars are making up grammatical usage to make hebrew more like english -- also, effectively making every translation inaccurate. that, however, is accurate. he doesn't know the first thing about translation. or hebrew. or probably greek, either. he doesn't understand why his "translations" show about as much comprehension as those of ronald pegg, who found CD-ROMs and time machines in the bible by replacing words with synonyms and ignoring grammar and usage.

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you don't have to tell me. have you read my "basic reading of genesis 1:1" thread?there's a reason he began this thread with the statement that:

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For this thread Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth". is to be accepted as a declarative statement of completed action.

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...and that's because he knows full well that this is actually a topic of debate, and that the scholarly consensus is that it says no such thing. rather, professional translators, and hebrew professors, and pretty much anyone who speaks hebrew, all seem to agree that it should be a dependent clause that describes the rest of the chapter. he knows that he can't demonstrate this, but he wants to talk about his particular ideology, not the bible. so he just assumes his conclusions.of course, he's accused me of the same thing. but an astute reader of that thread will note that my position actually changed during its course.

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this was most obvious when he insisted that the authors of the bible wrote at about the level of elementary schoolers -- in reality, he was mixing up his own reading comprehension level with that of how the text was actually written. he thought that because he didn't understand certain facets of grammar, the people who wrote the text must not have used those features.Edited by arachnophilia, : No reason given.

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