English Bible Translations - Lesson 14

In this lesson on Bibliology, Erik Wait provides an Introduction to English Bible Translations.
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IMHO, the downstream variations are bad. Starting heavy in Genesis but all throughout the Bible are repeats of numbers and names by fixed amounts as it creates analogs for downstream use. The religion becomes a carrier shell or "Ark" to carry by the masses. We know it rained for forty days and nights. Do we know Noah was said forty times too? That's just one of hundreds of these. Those masses who are unaware of the repeating code sequences drop them from the Bible and the hidden teaching is lost. Go upstream to the original source as much as possible. And read interpretations by scholars not theists. Scholars want the words to be accurate and theists want the teaching to be historical. Then interpret from there.

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To begin with "the downstream versions are bad" without any indication as to what you consider to be "upstream" is a failure to be clear as to what you are referring to with this metaphor. The metaphor appears in no scholarly references that I know of in regards to textual criticism, Bibliology or translations. To search for "hidden meanings" in a texts via "secret codes" is the very essence of Gnosticism and anti-Christian spiritualism. Apparently you did not read or just ignored the pinned comment above regarding lengthy debates in this platform.