11-28-2012, 02:15 PM
ScorpioSniper2 Wrote:I know a lot of people give him a bad rap for using Paul Younan's Interlinear and James Murdock's translation, but I think he did a fine job at making it his own.
It ain't that he used Younan's and Murdock's translations as base texts to make a revised version, it is that he said that he did not use them as a base text and only consulted them as he made a brand new word for word translation. Well the evidence shows that he only but used Younan's and Murdock's translations as base texts revising them here and there, except the book of Galatians (in which it would seem that he heavily revised it to the point that it is defiantly his own).
And it seems as if he used a word processor to change "LORD" and "Lord" to "Master YHWH" and God over to "Elohim" - being he has Elohim where Murdock rendered MarYah to GOD, and he has "Master YHWH" in places that Murdock has Lord for "mara" (i.e.-"lord"). If Roth had done a word for word translation as he claims he would have caught where Murdock rendered "MarYah" as "GOD" and he would of put "Master YHWH" instead, and he would have understood in the other instances that he should of put "Lord" instead of "Master YHWH" - unlike a word processor which can not cross reference the PeshittA Text.
Now I am not saying, besides the obvious mistakes, that Roth did not accomplished a good feat. But as for the above accusations about Roth lying about check for yourself. Besides the 4 PDFs listed below you can listen to any of Roth's videos about his version and see that he clearly lays claim that he only refered to Younan's and Murdock's translations or just read his Introduction to the AENT:
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