tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613525030683671127.post7390744270417114078..comments2023-10-12T14:09:33.965-07:00Comments on The Biblia Hebraica Blog: Bible Translation PhilosophyDouglas Mangumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15267532075493569019noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613525030683671127.post-41914071389828307432008-02-17T10:04:00.000-08:002008-02-17T10:04:00.000-08:00The NT Message is much better than its OT counterp...The NT Message is much better than its OT counterpart. Peterson's premise for translating the NT so idiomatically was that it was originally written in the common tongue, a premise that is substantially correct. Much of the Hebrew Bible, by contrast, does intend an elegant, high-literary idiom, which means that a paraphrase in common English takes greater liberty with the OT than with the NT.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17884801463675821328noreply@blogger.com