Dynamic Equivalence Vs. Fraud

I’m not a big fan of “dynamic equivalence” translations of the Bible–at least not for Bible study. They’re okay for Bible reading, but the more liberty translators feel themselves at liberty to take with the text, the more liberty they will take. Thus translations like the New International Version or Today’s English Version display considerable translator bias, though that’s a problem to some degree even in more literal versions.

But even dynamic equivalence translations don’t go in for what versions like the Mormon “Inspired” revision of the King James Version do. The latter commits wholesale fraud by inserting material into the text that is not remotely there in the original.

Turns out there’s a Wahabbi translation of the Qur’an that does exactly the same thing. It commits translation fraud in order to make Christians and Jews look worse than what the base text says.

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Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

3 thoughts on “Dynamic Equivalence Vs. Fraud”

  1. How much longer until Saudi Arabia is completely drained of its oil? Anyone know what the projections are?

  2. Oil pockets tend to refill over time.
    The thing is, for a fraction of the 200 billion, we could have built safe breeder reactors and have been completely energy independent. We could also have become a space-faring civilization with what was left over. Plenty of hydrocarbons for plastics in the Main Belt.

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