[B-Greek] NET - Novum Testamentum Graece Diglot (Greek / English)
Eduard C Hanganu
eddhanganu at hotmail.com
Thu Aug 26 22:44:32 EDT 2004
Dear Remington:
You are right, the abbreviation NET was what confused me in the first place.
This morning, though, I went to the web site and checked the mentioned New
English Translation. As usual, I look at some known passages in order to get
a feel of the translation work and I have to say that I was disappointed.
This NET seems to me more like a paraphrase than a "real" translation. I am
familiar with the literal or word for word translations and with the dynamic
equivalent translations, but this is more like an interpretation of the
original text which I find of little use. I guess I got so accustomed to
going to the original text that I became "spoiled" and lost patience with
the "translations" that bring in the ideas of the interpreters. The notes
added to the text also seem rather amateurish, most of them just personal
opinions with little textual support and confused exegesis.
Eduard Hanganu
From: Remington186 at aol.com
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [B-Greek] NET - Novum Testamentum Graece Diglot (Greek / English)
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:14:32 EDT
----- Original Message -----
From: eddhanganu at hotmail.com
Date: Wed Aug 25 22:14:12 EDT 2004
Eduard Hanganu writes:
Dear Wilson:Forgive me, but the more I read about this "Net Bible" the more
confused I get. Is it a PRINTED text, or a DIGITAL DOCUMENT? What really is
this thing?
Eduard
Part of the confusion over the NET Bible is its name.
NET means New English Translation
[And is not an acronym for Internet Bible. Although the translators may have
see the double-entendre.]
Best regards,
Remington Mandel
Hemet CA
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