[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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