The doctrinal footnotes are very much Roman Catholic, but the text is very reliable, based on the highly reliable Vulgate translation of St. I personally also really like the Challoner Douay Rheims. It also comtains a lectionary, forms for daily prayer, and Orthodox footnotes. I consider Steve a personal friend.Ĭlick to expand.Oh, in answer to your original question, I reccommend The Orthodox Study Bible as the best unified translation of the entire Bible, because it features the Septuagint as its Old Testament, and the NKJV New Testament, which is elegant as contemporary language translations go the best feature however are the footnotes, which explain the correct Orthodox interpretation of various passages. Steve Caruso is also involved in a very interesting project to translate the Mandaean Gnostic Book of John the Baptist from Classical Mandaic into English, which is very important most Mandaeans had to flee persecution in Iraq after 2003 and their 60,000 strong community is now dispersed around the world, with only 2,000 remaining in their ancestral homeland. His in an Aramaic Source Primacist, meaning he specialozes in reconstructing in Gallilean Aramaic the actual dialogue in the New Testament and in identifying what one mignt call the "Aramaic substrate," the layers of conversation, subtext and occasional verbal puns that existed in this dialogue, some of which were obscured when the Gospels and Epistles were composed in Greek due to the vagaries of language.which is not to say our Greek New Testament is in any way flawed or imperfect the words of our Lord translate perfectly into any language, but Aramaic Source Theory helps us to understand his extreme rhetorical brilliance in His native tongue, or should I say, the native tongue of His disciples, which allowed him to acquire such a following (our Lord could doubtless have spoken with perfect eloquence in any language). Here is the site in question:īy the way, one of the nicest and most accessible Aramaic experts online is Steve Caruso. You can find all of these at an archived website, run by a Peshitta Primacist who pater became a militant atheist who denied the historicity of Jesus, and then became a Pantheist,mpublishing a book called "iGod." He is a nice enough chap though I e-mailed him and obtained permission to mirror his site, but never got around to doing it.
His translation of one of the Petrine epistles felt stilted He translates Peter as Cephas consistently throughout the entire work My favourite translation of the Peshitta New Testament is the Murdock translation, which features clean, elegant English and which unlike the earlier Etheridge Bible, is a translation of the Western Peshitto used by the Syriac Orthodox, meaning it has the entire Athanasian Canon also, Murdock uses the Western names for the books and characters, mostly. Point being, translation isn't as simple as saying "this word equals this word, therefore this is a clear, literal translation."Ĭlick to expand.The only English translation I know of that inclides both the Old and New Testaments is the Lamsa Translation, which is controversial George Lamsa is a Peshitta Primacist, which means he believes the Peshitta predates the Greek New Testament (which is erroneous to a spectacular degree, although sadly many in the Assyrian Church of the East and even a few Syriac Orthodox believe this). most translations of the Epistle to the Hebrews).
Greek to English doesn't translate perfectly (or any language to English, for any text), so sometimes words that are implied or understood are added to a given - though I would argue that this isn't an addition so much as a clarification.īecause syntax and grammar from the original languages are different from the rules English follows, some translations seek instead of being literal to convey as closely as possible the thought behind the text (some, admittedly, better than others), but even the most literal English translations occasionally have to resort to this because it just doesn't make any sense in a one-to-one Greek-to-English comparison (e.g. Except for Young's Literal, I guess, which still interjects words like "is" into texts that don't contain them where they would be in English.
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