10-24-2013, 06:57 AM
Once you actually check the Lamsa version against the actual readings as found in the Aramaic text, (you can do this at Dukhrana, even if you can't read the Estrangela script)...you won't be a fan of his work anymore. His English style might be smoother than some are, true...but it is one of the worst versions out there for accuracy.
I am now calling it The King James Lamsa Bible. In many places it is a straight King James Version reading, ignoring the actual Aramaic wording. It's weird. I don't know how much Lamsa had control over his translation after he sold it to the company...but it is NOT the Peshitta in many verses. It's a hybrid text of Aramaic and Greek sources, and just plain ole KJV plagiarism.
(Edit) And..."why have you departed from me?" or perhaps a better rendering is "for what did you leave me?" is what I believe Jesus, in His humanity said to His Father that day on the Cross, when he became a curse for our sake. "Forsaken" is not what it was, as if God had rejected His Son, but, it was a departing from, or, leaving him there, as He died on the Cross, apart from God, as the Aramaic text says in Hebrews 2:9. David Bauscher tried to tell me that The Father and The Holy Spirit also died on the Cross...and even before Jesus did...which is of course absurd.
Peace,
Chuck
I am now calling it The King James Lamsa Bible. In many places it is a straight King James Version reading, ignoring the actual Aramaic wording. It's weird. I don't know how much Lamsa had control over his translation after he sold it to the company...but it is NOT the Peshitta in many verses. It's a hybrid text of Aramaic and Greek sources, and just plain ole KJV plagiarism.
(Edit) And..."why have you departed from me?" or perhaps a better rendering is "for what did you leave me?" is what I believe Jesus, in His humanity said to His Father that day on the Cross, when he became a curse for our sake. "Forsaken" is not what it was, as if God had rejected His Son, but, it was a departing from, or, leaving him there, as He died on the Cross, apart from God, as the Aramaic text says in Hebrews 2:9. David Bauscher tried to tell me that The Father and The Holy Spirit also died on the Cross...and even before Jesus did...which is of course absurd.
Peace,
Chuck