AENT Errors

[Luc Lefebvre]

I always found Acts 2:36 to be a strange Peshitta reading. Anyway, thanks for the PM and giving me more info! But really, a lot of people have talked bad about his translation of Galatians by saying that he essentially twisted it to say what he wanted it to say. I really don't see that at all. I know there is another place, I believe RAT mentioned it again, where he didn't correct Murdock's translation of "MarYah" in one place (Murdock translated it God, so Roth puts it as Elohim, rather than Master YHWH).

I did too until Paul explained it to me (if you're interested in talking theology about this one, let me know). Anyway, with Galatians, I won't say it doesn't have bias, but every translation has bias. You are always going to have to choose whose bias you want when you purchase a translation, and a literal translation will always have less of whatever bias that ends up being. I agree though that Galatians is not twisted. He made certain translation choices, but nothing that blatantly paraphrases and thus twists the text from what the original wording really says. It's not like the NWT or some of the whacko Sacred Name Bibles which often do it without admitting it. In the few places that Roth adds or changes a word, it's put in brackets and explained in footnotes so you have a chance to either agree or disagree with him. But he is always honest in those regards.