[Faith-talk] Translation in Theology.
Linda Mentink
mentink at frontiernet.net
Wed Jul 16 21:13:10 UTC 2014
Mostafa,
You don't discuss; you criticize. You won't get many responses because of this.
At 03:55 PM 7/16/2014, you wrote:
>Dear all, peace be with you. Today I would like
>to critically reexamine a subject that I have
>previously brought to discussion. It is
>translation and how it significantly effects the
>global discernment of theology. I believe we
>have discussed this before. I previously posed a
>basic contention, and I so far have not received
>convincing responses. I will therefore rephrase
>my contention onto four major factors, and I
>hope that someone would voluntarily deputize to
>thoroughly scrutinize. 1; Theology is
>essentially based on authentically attested
>narratives, so how can translated texts affirm
>to that proposition? 2; It is immensely
>improbable to accurately verify the textual
>authenticity of a translated theological
>reference if it originally comes from either
>ancient or dead languages. 3; I
>demonstratively decline the scenario which
>allegedly presupposes reliability of
>disingenuous scribes or translators. Those
>people have not been properly examined as
>whether they are trusted and entirely reliable.
>Their translations are potentially surmised
>to massive illegibility. They exhaustingly
>differ with each other, as the translation
>pursuits to satisfy the contemporary class, so
>it is rewritten in vernacular terms as to
>basically appeal modern readers. 4; English
>language has abundantly recalculated Ancient
>Greek and Hebrew terms, so they can appositely
>accommodate western modern philosophy. Does
>that effect the discernment of theology in the
>twenty first century? I believe that I
>have to further illustrate on the latter. For
>anyone to derive, analyze or interpret the Noble
>Koran, he is to requisitely master the
>disciplines of Arabic Grammar, Morphology and
>Rhetoric. These are cardinally
>indispensable characteristics and inevitably
>obtained skills for anyone interested to pursue
>in the field of Koranic Theology. Now, I want to
>greatly apprehend about what majors someone
>demands to attain in order to interpret either
>the Torah or the Gospel? I am afraid, but I
>would much prefer to call them the Torah and the
>Gospel rather than the Old and the New
>testament. The testament of Allah is eternally
>static, what is abrogated and altered is the
>divine jurisprudence. Jurist verdicts are
>expected to alter and abrogate to suit various
>circumstances that are pertained to different
>ages and human conditions. Well in
>addition to current English translations of the
>Torah and the Gospel, we are uncertain of
>whether those who translated them from Ancient
>Greek and Hebrew to Latin and then into English,
>were they competent, trustworthy, attentive and
>accurate? I actually cannot speak for them, nor
>anyone who respects our intellects can surely
>verify their total reliability. How many
>Pastor masters either Ancient Greek or Hebrew
>as he masters English? All Imams master the
>Koranic recitation in its eloquent Arabic, and
>they can easily compare English translations to
>that original based text. That way, they can
>easily affirm or negate its formation. I am
>calling to vivid reconsideration and constant
>meditation to what people tend to adhere.
>Cordially, Mostafa Almahdy.
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