10-29-2012, 03:03 AM
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What is the Red Book? The CoE's Printed Aramaic New Testament?
And I don't think Roth's version is without its merits...he at least chose to go with most of the Eastern readings that were not in his Murdoch base translation...where Bauscher chose to keep all the western readings in and even add one which is in no Aramaic text. And for the most part Roth tries to be as literal as possible, which is best I think. I guess I had alot of hope built up for it, and when I got a copy, it was a let down on a number of levels. I still like it better than Bauschers and Lamsa's, but not as much as Magiera's, which even though it goes west most of the time, it is without doctrinal bias as far as I can see.
Lets hope the new edition has worked out most of the bugs...
Shlama,
Chuck
What is the Red Book? The CoE's Printed Aramaic New Testament?
And I don't think Roth's version is without its merits...he at least chose to go with most of the Eastern readings that were not in his Murdoch base translation...where Bauscher chose to keep all the western readings in and even add one which is in no Aramaic text. And for the most part Roth tries to be as literal as possible, which is best I think. I guess I had alot of hope built up for it, and when I got a copy, it was a let down on a number of levels. I still like it better than Bauschers and Lamsa's, but not as much as Magiera's, which even though it goes west most of the time, it is without doctrinal bias as far as I can see.
Lets hope the new edition has worked out most of the bugs...
Shlama,
Chuck