[sword-devel] GNU and OS ideologies and indulgences

[Chris]

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>Too many people go roamin in Romans for ever without understanding it well.
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Would you acknowledge, that maybe, just maybe there is someone somewhere 
who actually understands Romans? Would you further stretch your 
imagination that this person also has an internet connection?

>You still have not said who the audience is. I am not going to please many Catholic friends if I take the translation that pleases me most, the Orthodox Jewish Brit Chadasha, and Jewish Press OT as the basis. I problably wont please many of you either.
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Sounds like you don't want a garden variety bible. Maybe you are the 
audience then?

>I wory about names for instance. John's real name was Yochanan. 
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[snip much discussion about names ]

Like I said, if the text was heavily marked up with tags, you could if 
you wanted choose a Good-News translation with Jewish transliterated 
names. Shouldn't this then make you happy??

>Then there is a whole world of background information, ideas, concepts, and so on that translation by itself cant touch.
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So acknowedging that translation can't touch it, then it's not an issue 
is it? You could
call it a Fringe or a Tzit, or a do-dad, and it will make no difference. 
In that situation
you need a commentary to get the whole background. But if you are a guru 
with all
the Jewish stuff, why shouldn't you be able to read say a NASB with the
"Jewish Guru" checkbox set to "on", which turns fringes into Tzit Tzits ??