09-19-2010, 08:58 PM
Concerning the mistranslation of Romans 5:7---
In his "The Original New Testament in Plain English", Dave Bauscher suggests that the original Aramaic New Testament was probably written in the First Century using the same script as found in the Dead Sea Scolls (DSS).
In the DSS script the Aramaic words for "wicked" and "righteous" look very similar with 75% correlation. The original Greek translator could have easily made this mistake.
On the other hand all of the Greek words for "wicked" look very different from the Greek word used for "righteous". It is unlikely that an Aramaic translator would make that mistake.
Otto
In his "The Original New Testament in Plain English", Dave Bauscher suggests that the original Aramaic New Testament was probably written in the First Century using the same script as found in the Dead Sea Scolls (DSS).
In the DSS script the Aramaic words for "wicked" and "righteous" look very similar with 75% correlation. The original Greek translator could have easily made this mistake.
On the other hand all of the Greek words for "wicked" look very different from the Greek word used for "righteous". It is unlikely that an Aramaic translator would make that mistake.
Otto