
Episode 314: Leonard Cohen, and Other Rabbis - Harry Freedman
Judaism Unbound
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The Murderous History of Bible Translations
Every translation is an interpretation. Translating the bible into greek suddenly opened up jewish thought to alien ideas. The catholic church was deeply threatened when people like tindale, the proto protestant biblical translator, starts to translate the bible into english. It's been trying to translate it into english before am by wickliffe in the thirteenth century. And and he was burnt at the stake for it, i think. So that's baselyt what that book is about. Translations are dangerous things, because they allow people to think for themselves, and that's not what you want if you're running your religion.
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