{"id":4500,"date":"2013-03-19T04:13:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T08:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=4500"},"modified":"2014-01-31T19:32:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T00:32:53","slug":"linkage-dan-wallace-5-myths-about-bible-translation-dale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/linkage-dan-wallace-5-myths-about-bible-translation-dale\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Wallace: 5 Myths About Bible Translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/books.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4501\" alt=\"books\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/books-300x271.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/books-300x271.png 300w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/books-420x380.png 420w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/books-90x81.png 90w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/books.png 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Check out this <strong><a title=\"5 myths about Bible Translation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reclaimingthemind.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/five-myths-about-bible-translation\/\" target=\"_blank\">post by Dan Wallace<\/a><\/strong> over at <a title=\"Parcment and Pen blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reclaimingthemind.org\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Parchment and Pen<\/a>. I teach religious studies, and regularly encounter this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Myth 1: The Bible has been <strong>translated so many times<\/strong> we can\u2019t possibly get back to the original.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Wallace's post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reclaimingthemind.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/five-myths-about-bible-translation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wallace&#8217;s answer<\/a> is absolutely right.<\/p>\n<p>#2 is also an important point. Wallace might have added that <strong>quotation marks<\/strong> are never in the Greek manuscripts; they didn&#8217;t exist in ancient times. In a sense, they are part of the translation &#8211; and at times, a product of translators&#8217; interpretation.<\/p>\n<p>I <strong>agree<\/strong> with the substance of Wallace&#8217;s comments #3 and #4 as well. But on #5, it is wholly unclear what he means by the &#8220;<strong>deity<\/strong> of Christ.&#8221; Evangelicals love that phrase, I think in part <a title=\"A Lesson in Christological Rhetoric\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/2078\" target=\"_blank\"><em>because of<\/em> its ambiguity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is true, though, that <strong>Constantine<\/strong> is not any kind of major player in the development of catholic doctrine. That&#8217;s just <a title=\"Post on the Da Vinci Code\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/archives\/2637\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Brown nonsense<\/a> &#8211; the bane of anyone who loves the intellectual enterprise of history.<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"15 More Bible Translation Myths\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reclaimingthemind.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/fifteen-more-myths-about-bible-translation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Update: 15 more<\/a>. Some of this stuff is embarrassing; but Wallace is doing God&#8217;s work, because many of these are in wide circulation.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this post by Dan Wallace over at Parchment and Pen. I teach religious studies, and regularly encounter this one: Myth 1: The Bible has been translated so many times we can\u2019t possibly get back to the original. Wallace&#8217;s answer is absolutely right. #2 is also an important point. Wallace might have added that&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/linkage-dan-wallace-5-myths-about-bible-translation-dale\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dan Wallace: 5 Myths About Bible Translation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,21,15,6,14,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apologetics","category-bible","category-christology","category-complaints","category-history","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5903,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500\/revisions\/5903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}