1 Peter - kefa alef ?

[The Texas RAT]

I'm afraid this would alienate your readers.
Technically, to translate 'Rock' instead of Peter or Petros, would be ok, but you also should keep readers comfortable. This issue also plays a role when a translator decides to transliterate 'marya' or YHWH or whatever into the Bible.

A translater has to choose between his personal opinion and to pass the Word of God without comprising the Message in the best language he/she can.

B.t.w. most people even do not know the meaning of their own name. In Europe, still some e.g. German names (which in fact mean 'sword' or 'bear' or 'strong') are in use, but those names are no longer 'language' (just as Keepha=rock) but just a name.

But Keepha still means rock and always has so your ideology does not apply here. Only ignorant people do not know this and if one educates them, instead of keeping them ignorant, that obstetrical disappears and wallah -problem solve.

Now I will readily admit that not only are the majority of people ignorant of so much but they want to stay that way as well, and to that I say you can not reach them with knowledge because they will reject it. So trying to dummy down the Good News enough so that the majority would accept it would not work because by the time they are able to receive what they already know it would not be the Good News full of wisdom and understanding.

Personally, again, I think that if one has to dummy stuff down to the point that no one is learning anything it is but a waste of time, yeah/nah? But if one's goal is for ignorance to be a future goal then just leave them be - goal achieved. Anyway, my line of thinking is to eradicate the ignorance, instead of breading it, so that the problem of knowledge being of an unknown obstacle (in their way of being able to gain wisdom and understanding) would rather become a thing of the past laughed at. Oh yeah I get a lot of laughs at how lacking in knowledge I was, but was it my fault or was it the ones that sought to keep me that way by just not putting the knowledge before me so I could grow therein.

I mean really when do the so-called teaches think that knowledge triumphs keeping people clueless? Anyway as I said I am not wanting to waste my time trying to teach people in a way that they learn nothing, I would rather teach straight forward truth and let it be a shock for the reader to get over as opposed to give them what I was feed for so many years. And the ones wanting to learn will and the ones that would rather stay ignorant of things I am more than willing to stay out of their way and let them be. As far as I care some one that is willing to feed their itching ears can deal with them.

All that said, it might alienate people that are comfortable in their ignorance unwilling to grow in knowledge and understanding, but not the the ones I'm shooting for. <!-- s:whaasup: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/whaasup.gif" alt=":whaasup:" title="Whaasup" /><!-- s:whaasup: --> <!-- s:eh: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/eh.gif" alt=":eh:" title="Eh" /><!-- s:eh: --> <!-- stupid: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/withstupid.gif" alt="tupid:" title="Stupid" /><!-- stupid: --> <!-- s:oha: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/oha.gif" alt=":oha:" title="Oha!" /><!-- s:oha: --> <!-- s:bigups: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/bigups.gif" alt=":bigups:" title="Big Ups" /><!-- s:bigups: -->