[B-Greek] Interlinear Scripture Analyzer
Eric Weiss
eweiss at gte.net
Sat Oct 11 21:30:18 EDT 2003
One of the "reviews" for the software at the Web site:
"I just downloaded the ISA and it is AMAZING! Thank you soooo much
for putting this out there and for FREE. I EXTREMELY appreciate
this, as a Christian and supporter of the free software and open
source movements too.... My husband and I have often drifted asleep at night saying, "If only we could learn Greek and **get at the
root of the meanings",** and here we can finally get the intimacy
with the language and with such a beautiful tool as this. Thanks
again - I can only hope to write something so uber someday
thanks,
-KO"
Does this mean that we will be flooded with "root fallacy" errors by people who trust this program to teach them "what the Greek REALLY means"? (** ** added by me) :)
(From the Web site: http://www.concordant.info/)
About concordant.info
It was at a conference, somewhere in the Netherlands. At the end of
the morning session a slim, grey-haired woman stood up and
asked : Why is it, that speakers always say : In your Bible the
word is such-and-so, but in Greek the word is this-and-that. Can
we trust our Bible at all ?
Good question, madam. The same question I asked myself some twenty
years ago. The beginning of a long search for truth.
At first I bought The New testament from 26 translations. I tried
to make my own translation. But I came bewildered by all those
divergent meanings of the same Bible verses.
I decided to study Koiné-Greek, the language of the New Testament.
I studied LaSors Handbook of New Testament Greek, and Bauers
famous Lexicon. But after long hours of study I still felt the
translation slipping through my fingers.
Then I came upon A.E. Knochs Concordant Greek Text. Knoch gave a
Greek text, based upon the three major uncial manuscripts of the
Greek New Testament, plus an English sublineair.
In his introduction to this text, Knoch described his concordant
method. Every single Greek word was translated by a single,
exclusive English equivalent. A standardized translation.
It proved to be the answer to my questions. I began using the
sublinear for my Bible studies and all those years it proved to be
far superior to all other translations.
I started to make a Dutch sublinear, based upon Knochs Greek text
and his English sublinear. Immediately I saw the possibilities to
check the Dutch version of the New Testament by this method.
Then I met André de Mol. He suggested that I should make use of
modern technology, such as a computer. He designed a bèta version
of an interlinear program for me. Later he called it : ISA.
I chose the Nestle-Aland 26/27 for my Greek text. The NA 26/27 is
used by Bible Societies all over the world for their translations.
Then I adjusted Knochs concordant English sublinear to this NA
26/27.
Afterwards I made a Dutch sublinear based upon the Dutch version of
the New Testament, the 1951 edition of Het Nederlands
Bijbelgenootschap. I put it under Knochs English, concordant
sublinear.
With these sublinears anyone can see at a glance the divergences
between the original and the translation. And that is the
answer to the question of that sweet, grey-haired lady. Can we
trust our Bible at all? Please, madam, check it out yourself! With
ISA.
Menno Haaijman
December 2002
Eric S. Weiss
eweiss at gte.net
http://home1.gte.net/vzn05pnm/index.htm
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