Translation...
Speaking as one from the industry, translation is a tricky business.

In this day and age, translators are selected for work based on the obvious criteria of an ability with the languages involved, and also a proven understanding of the texts subject matter.

Today, even with careful selection, all the resources made available, and with the readily available resource from the age-of-google at your fingertips, it is still possible for a translation to be completely incorrect, or just subtly inaccurate.

Translation of old texts was done in a time where ambiguity was debated, and by committee, and a meaning settled upon amongst a small group of people, and spelling was open to debate.

Some of the stories in religious texts are can be quite complex, and deal with concepts that are quite intricate in their detail and wording.

With this in mind, I find myself asking the following questions..

'How accurate were the translations of the original text?',
'How many translations of bad translations have been done?'
and...
'How many bad translation of bad translations have been done?'

These questions leave me with "How many of religions are based on nothing more profound than a typo"?

Apologies for length, and lack of the funny
( BulldogUgly Visit my profile to see what's between my legs, Fri 20 Mar 2009, 12:35, Reply)