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Great story! Good illustration of the necessity for a translator knowing the range of meaning of words, not just a gloss (one word translation).

Secular translation studies scholar Palumbo is not so dismissive of literal translation. “Literal translation is a translation strategy or technique involving a choice of TL [target language--JoJ] equivalents that stay close to the form of the original while ensuring grammaticality in the TL”...

The opposite of "free translation" is "literal translation." However, there is a lot of debate about just what "literal" means. “literalness: quality of a translation in which the form of the original is reproduced in the receptor language in such a way as to distort the message and/or the...

Many mistake dynamic equivalence for a form of "free translation," but it isn't really. Here are several scholarly definitions of "free translation" by secular translation studies scholars. “Free translation is usually taken to concentrate on conveying the meaning of the ST disregarding the...

I'll weigh in on this. I've seen many Japanese ball games, been in four or five stadiums there. We used to say that Japanese ball was on a Triple A level. If there is any one team that could compete with MLB it would be the Tokyo Giants. They have the nicest stadium in Japan to attract players...

interlinear: a literal translation that translates not only word for word, but keeps the word order of the original. It is called interlinear because such a translation is usually printed with the original and the translation lined up together. The purpose of an interlinear translation is study.

concordance: (1) the process of translating every occurrence of a given word in the original with the same word in the TL (target language). The problem with this is that seldom does a given word in the TL have the same range of meaning as a word in the SL (source language). (2) a book or...

Folks, just ignore the "science" (which changes) and all the human thought on this thread. It was a miracle!! If humans could explain it (like people are trying to in this whole thread) it would not be a miracle!

Of course. this is elementary. Here is the doctrine as held by Christians for many centuries. Mary was a virgin when Jesus was conceived. The Holy Spirit Himself then by a miracle created Christ in the womb of Mary. Mary participated in this in the sense that she not only provided the womb, but...

Naw, you've made your point. Thank you! But please note that I claimed no great knowledge about the term, and deliberately was ambiguous. I was open to correction and learning.

Well, of course. This is all basic Christology and individual eschatology. (Are you familiar with this theology?) So? Now comes the crux of the matter. Of course Jesus did not have a sin nature. I suppose that is what you are trying to say, but do not have the proper English to communicate...

Sorry, I am a real stickler for treating the Word of God with all respect. (I do not say you don't respect the Word of God.) Now, how about that word in the Bible for how creatures are born. Do you know it?

Please put the Bible quote in quote marks next time you quote the Bible. That way it is clearly distinguishable from your own words. That is the proper way to quote the Bible in English.

I took high school biology also. I remember that the teacher, named Miss Hoag," mocked me for believing in the biblical account of creation. Now Eliyahu wants us to believe that somehow the "true science" of biology is just as authoritative as the Word of God? Never in a billion years. Here is a...

Excellent! Thanks for the corrections, Jerome. I'll remember this information.

I absolutely reject this premise. There is no human "science" that "coinside (sp.) with Word of God (sic). I dare you to actually prove your statement factually. You cannot. As Paul wrote, "O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions...

Friends, we have no instructions from God in the Bible to go to science for any light on any doctrine whatsoever. Therefore, this whole thing about DNA and Mary and Jesus is barking up the wrong tree, going down the wrong road, shooting at the wrong animal, and any other idiom or metaphor we...

Wow. So in your belief system life science trumps the Word of God? Is that it? Absolutely not. I oppose 100% any effort to use science in developing theology. Science has been proven to be wrong 1000s of times. For centuries scientists told us we had 9 planets in our solar system, but now they...

dynamic equivalence: “quality of a translation in which the message of the original text has been so transported into the receptor language that the RESPONSE of the RECEPTOR is essentially like that of the original receptors. Frequently, the form of the original text is changed; but as long as...

There are a couple of important linguistic terms that I have not mentioned yet. Phoneme: the smallest sound with no meaning in the phonetic system of a language. So for example, "ph" in English (or the letter phi, φ, in Greek) is a phoneme, or a sound with no meaning. Morpheme: the smallest...