Brian S. Hook
Sep 27, 2023

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I've been on Medium for a couple of years and I realize well that it is not a scholarly site. But I encourage you to do more research before you publish, and I do not mean this as an unkindness. As many other commenters have noted, the New Testament was written in Greek, not Aramaic; the Buddha spoke Pali, not Sanskrit; the New Living Translation is more a paraphrase than a translation; etc. Accuracy is important.

I teach ancient Greek, and I assure you that the New Testament is not a complex text. There are very few interpretively difficult passages, especially in the Gospels. By bringing in Lao Tzu and the Dao De Jing, a famously difficult text, and suggesting that they are similar, you conflate and confuse two very different challenges to translation.

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Brian S. Hook
Brian S. Hook

Written by Brian S. Hook

Dad, classicist, mountain dweller, erstwhile triathlete, wannabe woodworker, follower of Socrates and Jesus (two famous non-writers), writing to avoid raveling

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