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I'm wondering why this is in the Baptist Theology & Bible Study" forum. No Scripture or theology was given. And note that aterisktom himself is the author. (Is he putting forth anti-Zionism as theology?) And in the article itself, only the story of the Good Samaritan is mentioned, which has...

Right! And even then he sent a very small force, which was a complete failure. I remember all of it well. And as you know, as soon as Reagan was elected--a very tough president--they gave back the hostages. Iran only respects military force. Interesting that now there is civil war beginning in...

As soon as I saw the name "Rothschilds" in the article as inventing the term, and the weird idea that Scofield perpetuated Zionism, I knew it was nothing more than a conspiracy theory. (No source is given for either of these assumed facts. It's always a red flag when assumptions are stated as...

That does make sense. A Bible translator simply must be walking in the Spirit when he or she translates. It's a spiritual activity, accessing the precious Word of God in the original language, and doing one's best to get it correctly into the language of a people group that desperately needs it.

machine translation: an early word for computer translation. Eugene Nida devoted the last chapter of his book delineating his new theory to this subject (Towards a Science of Translating, 1964, Chapter 12). computer translation: a translation using a computer program to provide a first draft...

Here's a blog by Mike Stallard, a prof of mine, who answered D. Brent Sandy at that meeting: Eschatology « Our Hope Here are several websites with dispensational theology articles, etc.: https://www.raptureready.com/ https://pre-trib.org/ https://tyndale.edu/jodt/

Eugen Nida was extremely prejudiced against any kind of literal or word-for-word translation, which he called (inaccurately): “formal correspondence: quality of a translation in which the features of the form of the source text have been mechanically reproduced in the receptor language...

Revised dispensationalism consists of the corrections made to the original version of Darby, Scofield, and somewhat of Chafer. For example, in one place in his reference Bible, Scofield used the term "period of time." “A dispensation is a period of time during which man is tested in respect of...

Sounds logical. Personally, as a revised dispensationalist, I look on progressive dispensationalism as a completely different theology, born of theological compromise with covenant theology, not really dispensationalism at all.

Once upon a time, DTS was completely fundamentalist, as witness the 1965 book by their professor Robert Lightener, Neo-Evangelicalism. Nowadays most fundamentalists would classify it as conservative evangelical, but then some fundamentalists don't want to be called that because of how the...

Verbal aspect refers to "the view of the action that the speaker chooses to present to the hearer" (David Alan Black, Learn to Read NT Greek, 3rd ed, p. 14). This is often confused with Aktionsart, a German term meaning "kind of action." Daniel Wallace (The Basics of New Testament Syntax, pp...

In Post #38 I asked if Greek has respect language. I guess I'll have to answer that myself. Yes, it does! Here are just a couple of examples. Think of the word kurios (κυρίος), usually translated "Lord" for the Lord Jesus. However, 12 times it is translated "Sir" in the KJV, sometimes even when...

paraphrase: “A restatement of a text or passage in another form or other words, often to clarify meaning” (American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd ed. Houghton Mifflin Co, 1996; electronic version). So a paraphrase isn't really a translation, but a restatement. And if it is a...

meaning-based translation: a theory developed by Mildred Larson in her book Meaning-Based Translation (1984, 2nd ed. 1998), in which the goal is to properly render the meaning of the original into the target language. Larson quotes Nida many times, and generally follows his method, though she...

As I recall, that movie was a modernized version of the original "Cyrano de Bergerac" play.

authorial intent: the meaning the author intended to convey. In Bible translation, this is in opposition to Eugene Nida's "reader response," putting the responsibility for human comprehension on the Divine Author rather than the human reader. In other words, it would be very strange if a single...

I think that a truly educated person does not need such language to communicate. There is a famous scene in the play “Cyrano de Bergerac” where an enemy tries to pick a fight with Cyrano in Act 1, so he insults his nose: “Monsieur, your nose...your nose is rather large.” Cyrano mocks him...

Good story. Alas, respect language is fading away in modern American English. I'm appalled at the filthy language--taboo language--seen all through American society nowadays.

Thank you, Jerome. ("Thanks" is respect language.) This is a very helpful video. I was brought up to say "Yes sir, no sir" and Yes ma'am No ma'am," and I still do so to this day to anyone in authority, even if they are younger.

respect language: Also called honorific language, this points to words used to address someone of either higher or lower status in society. Some languages have as many as four or five levels of respect language. Japanese has (in my thinking): plain, polite, respectful, highly respectful, and...