Setting the record straight

[Paul Younan]

This scribe stuff doesn???t apply to this situation really at all. I mean a Scribe is someone who copies the same language text like Aramaic to Aramaic to preserve the text, so he tries to make it exact as possible..

My point about the scribes was that for thousands of years copies have been faithfully made of the literary treasures of mankind...from the Scriptures to the Epic of Gilgamesh. And civilization is better off because of it.

Neither Moses nor Ashurbanipal knew anything of copyrights, nor did they care about intellectual property. But the world is a better place because of the two of them. No one worried about waiting until 70 years after Tatian died to make copies of his Diatesseron....so it would be in the "public domain." How utterly ridiculous these laws we now have are.

As if we all live in a bubble apart from one another, never borrowing from one another and those who came before us.

The bottom line is that, at least here in the West, money is the driving force behind pretty much everything. So "Rev" Bauscher thinks in terms of "'plagiarism" ... as if MY income~livelihood would be negatively affected by any supposed misrepresentation by Andrew.

That's why I said: Stephen King, I could understand. That's how the man makes his living. Don't go making a 1,000 copies of his books and giving them away for free. And don't copy his latest horror novel and call it your own....that's wrong.

But the Scripture? I don't care if you make a translation or not: I don't care if you spent 10 years of your life sweating it out....the very idea of any sort of "copyright" on anything you derive from scripture is just plain repulsive to me.

What is the objective? To make money off of the Word of God....or to gain the praise of men? Either way, your "copyrighted" translation was made for the wrong reason.