Direct translations of the Bible [View All]

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

After the thread about the Bible being 'lies and spin', I thought it might be interesting to discuss what it would be like to have scholars take the earliest texts they can find for certain portions of the Bible and directly translate them into English. Thus we would have the benefit of current scholarship that could be tested and questioned, and people could find out what the ancient texts said as interpreted and translated into a modern context.

This work has been started by Neil Douglas-Klotz, a scholar of Hebrew and Aramaic and a Sufi Murshid (teacher). He has written several books. The two I have are "Prayers of the Cosmos" which translates Jesus's words from Aramaic to English, and "Desert Wisdom", which translates "sacred Middle Eastern Writings form the Goddess through the Sufis".

Would there be anyone here interested in reading excerpts from these works? I think that there is much that one would find enlightening.