The Emphatic What ?

by jules99 7 Replies latest jw friends

  • jules99
    jules99

    Can anyone enlighten me as to the origins of The Emphatic Diaglott ? Is it anything to do with the Vatican?

    Jules

  • IP_SEC
    IP_SEC

    I believe its just another word for an interlinear bible, with the greek, word for word english, and then english translation.

    I could be wrong on that tho.

  • voltaire
    voltaire

    The word "diaglott" seems to be Greek and means "two tongues" (Dia=two and Glott=tonge) So it's a bilingual edition (Bilingual is Latin and means the same thing Bi=Two and lingual=Tongue) Who translatedit, I'm not sure. Wasn't it a Benjamin wilson? If I'm remembering correctly he translated "parousia" as "presence", rather than "coming", which supported Russel's theology. I imagine that's why the WT bought the rights to it and went to the trouble of printing it. (I haven't attended meetings for 3 years, so I may be remembering wrong, anyone else should feel free to correct me or expand on what I've said). It's not a bad way to study biblical Greek, BTW. Kinda fun to read it and refer to the English as you go along, you can make out quite a lot of vocabulary and some grammar, too.

  • jgnat
    jgnat

    Here's a link that explains the origins quite well:

    http://www.catholicapologetics.net/Emphatic%20Diaglott2.htm

    And here, with other contemporary translations:

    http://www.bible-researcher.com/versbib9.html

    The history of the vatican codex which was used as the basis for this translation:

    http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04086a.htm

    The connection to the Vatican is that the translator would have had to obtain access to this document from their library. Similar to the Watchtower's need to access the UN library, I suppose...

  • Narkissos
    Narkissos
  • jules99
    jules99

    Thanks, everyone, the links are really interesting.

    I'm now trying to figure whether the Word was God or "a god"..................... and does it actually matter?

    Jules

  • Nathan Natas
    Nathan Natas

    Hi Jules,

    This reminds me of another great theological debate of equal significance:

    If Pluto is a dog, what the heck is Goofy?

  • jules99
    jules99

    Hi Nathan!

    Good question. Made me wonder:-


    If Wile E Coyote had enough money to buy all that Acme crap, why didn't he just buy dinner?
    and:-
    Is Disney World the only people trap operated by a mouse?

    Sigh. I suppose there's some things we'll never know.

    Jules

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