On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:00:50 GMT, Dave Oldridge
<doldridgLEAVETHISOUT@hfx.eastlink.ca> wrote:

John W <john_weatherly47@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:e4jvmvk3c87ulemjtner662nb118ll0516@4ax.com:

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 19:07:40 -0700, "Iconoclast" <icono@home.net>
wrote:

"IknowHimDoYou" <IknowHim@leavingsoon.com> wrote in message
news:IknowHim-2209030925290001@pm6-30.kalama.com...

Literal Genesis

The Hebrew grammer of Genesis

Is COMPLETELY unknown to those today including you.

You forget the NUMEROUS Hebrew and Greek scholars today, Icon, who
have translated the various versions of the Bible we use now. I have
known probably 20 or 30 Bible translators in my time.

Whatever. I am enough of a scholar to translate the NT for myself
when needed and, while I'm not a Hebrew scholar I'm acquainted with a
man who is fluent in Biblical Hebrew, which, by the by, is NOT all
THAT old, since the whole Torah and Tenach were recompiled by the
priests and prophets of the restoration from earlier sources that were
somewhat divergent (having diverged during the period of the two
kingdoms).

But fundamentalist "scholars" are, all too often these days, not
SCHOLARS at all. They are, instead, apologists for a private
interpretation, nothing more. Too bad. Fundamentalism actually had
some scholars back about 100 years ago, but the whole movement has
been hijacked by latter- day neo-Pharisees, many of them functionally
illiterate even in English when that is their native tongue.

Rubbish.

I am talking about Ph Dd, Th Dd M Div scholars who don't use English
translations. My pastors have ALL stood up to preach using NOTHING
more than a Hebrew Old Testament and a Greek New Testament. While you
may labor to translate, these scholars have translated the
translations you and others use today.

Dr. Carpenter, Dr. Pegg, Dr. Culbreth, Dr. Stookey, Dr. Fickett, Dr.
McBirnie, Dr. London, Dr. Baxter, Dr. Thomas... I could go on...