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A teaching during a walk in the mountains

A teaching during a walk in the mountains

Wilson, Dan

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ISBN13: 9798790877131
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 26 2021
Pages: 52
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.11 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
This is a American Scientific English Translation of (arguably) Jesus' most popular teaching. Whether the reader is atheist, agnostic or a committed follower of some religion, this teaching is a guide for a good life. The translator wanted to memorize this teaching, and recognized that the existing translations were so technically accurate that they weren't understandable.

Often scriptures, when read out loud, sound more like Yoda from Star Wars than something identified and named, the word of God. Several words used in standard English translations have all but lost their meaning - beyond that one book. Some word's meaning, from the day they were spoken, might be best understood today by using the definition of that word or replacing the word with a rephrased explanation of how that same word or concept took place when this monolog was spoken/written. Intent here is to make these words identifiable enough to be recognizable.

When this teaching was given, the heart (for example) was defined as the complete center of a person. That would also include today's term, imagination, but imagination is a Latin word which wasn't commonly used until Latin was more commonly spoken. Also, our time's default definition of heart is primarily the muscle in the middle of an animal's chest which pumps blood throughout its body. That would include the emotions and other chemicals which pump through our bloodstream. Therefore heart has been replaced in this translation with, heart-pumped feelings and imagination.

Some bible-words have almost no commonly held societal definition, like evil. Other words, like hypocrite, only have subjective definitions. This teacher consistently referred to the evil-peddlers of his day as blind, and that, If I glorify myself, my glory means nothing. Therefore, evil has been worded below with, blinding self-glorification. Hypocrite is clarified with more of a cultural perspective than an actual definition because we all know when we recognize one. They're the people who act out on entitlement's presumption of superiority. It's common for someone like this to be offended, but it is unmistakable when we encounter one. Hypocrites are actors.

A final example of the wording used in compiling this translation of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, humorously, doesn't use any of the existing English translation's words. Today, the Greek word kosmos is a better English word than any of the 20+ English translations which were viewed and combined in the completion of this project. Maybe it was Carl Sagan's influence, but little is more understandable than the vastness of the cosmos - which was the point Jesus was making. In this translation, cosmos'' is used as a translation of kosmos, rather than world.

Grammatically, some parts switch from 1st person speaker to 3rd person telling the story, to the we perspective as participants in what is being taught. This is the clearest way to communicate a favorite teaching, as spoken in the language we speak daily.

Considering there were no lower-case letters or sentence punctuation in Greek when this was written, sometimes the punctuation or capitalization used can also confuse meaning. This is necessary to consider with texts this old.

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