10-24-2012, 06:13 PM
IPOstapyuk Wrote:Luc Lefebvre wrote
Quote:Andrew is busy with his own ministry at One Faith One People and spends all of his time posting there. His translation of Tanach though (called MATARA) is going to be from the Masoretic text. While he is bringing in other ancient witnesses such as the Peshitta and Targums, they are going to be supplementary to the main text (MATARA stands for Masoretic Targumic Amplified edition Tanach). The last I heard a few months ago, he was saying that MATARA was 5-6 years away from being done.
And as a result it will be a new combination product, new form of corruption.
Personally, if I would translate something I would be dedicated to a certain one manuscript.
Personally I do not mind a critical text if the variant reading are attested to by the majority of the Ancient texts, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Aramaic Tanak, the Samaritan Tanak, The Latin Vulgate, as well as the Septuagint, along with Targum being considered - oh and I guess if the Masoretic text agree with the majority it could be considered too.
But I also like having these other texts translated into English so that I can double check the critical text to make sure the majority of the others have the variant readings.