{"id":33475,"date":"2013-06-26T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=33475"},"modified":"2021-03-21T21:31:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T02:31:52","slug":"your-translation-of-jeremiah-is-way-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/your-translation-of-jeremiah-is-way-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Your translation of Jeremiah is way off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>Shalom,<\/p>\n<p>I wish more Christians studied scripture in its original language. I googled some information as to why Christians do not keep the laws of the five books of Moses. I came upon your website which quoted a few verses from Jeremiah. I am an orthodox Jew who lived in Israel. I speak, read, live and breathe Hebrew. Your translation of the verses is way off.<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>Given that the quotations come from translations of Hebrew done by experts in the field, a claim that all the experts are wrong is suspect. Then on top of this, you make an assertion without giving evidence and somehow think people are going to accept your claim? You need to do better than that.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Shalom, I wish more Christians studied scripture in its original language. I googled some information as to why Christians do not keep the laws of the five books of Moses. I came upon your website which quoted a few verses from Jeremiah. I am an orthodox Jew who lived in Israel. I speak, read,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[1015,311],"class_list":["post-33475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-jeremiah","tag-translations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13201,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/why-do-you-say-the-new-world-translation-is-not-a-reliable-translation\/","url_meta":{"origin":33475,"position":0},"title":"Why do you say the New World Translation is not a reliable translation?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"November 3, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: On your web site, it reads that The New World Translation (NWT) \"...is not a reliable translation\". Prof. Jason BeDuhn in his book\u00a0Truth in Translation Accuracy and Bias in English Translations of the New Testament (this is not the only book) would strongly disagree with your conclusion that the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Answer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8065,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/what-do-you-think-about-the-new-living-translation\/","url_meta":{"origin":33475,"position":1},"title":"What do you think about the New Living Translation and the Complete Jewish Bible?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 5, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I am of need of some help with Bible translations. What I would like is a list of good translation Bibles and a list of bad Bible translations. I don't like the NIV and I always felt in the spirit that it indeed was not trustworthy. 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The King did not simply disagree with what he heard but took his penknife and cut off three or four pages and threw them in the fire until the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Article&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":68247,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/are-translations-authorized\/","url_meta":{"origin":33475,"position":3},"title":"Are Translations Authorized?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"June 4, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"by Doy Moyer Perhaps this seems like an odd question, but it is good to think about this. Since most people are not going to learn Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, the only way they are going to hear God's word at all will be through translations. But how do we\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Article&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":32886,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/my-professor-says-your-the-new-international-version-paper-is-flawed\/","url_meta":{"origin":33475,"position":4},"title":"My professor says your &#8220;The New International Version&#8221; paper is flawed","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"May 16, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I submitted Mr. Hamilton's paper to my seminary professor, Dr. David Johnson, who teaches The History of The New Testament. He said: \"The problem with the article is that (his claim is not accurate). The gnostic texts that were discovered were not biblical texts. The biblical texts that have\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Answer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27950,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/does-righteousness-mean-giving\/","url_meta":{"origin":33475,"position":5},"title":"Does righteousness mean giving?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"November 26, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Brother Jeffrey, I hope you have time to answer. I was speaking with a Pentecostal fellow who tried to redefine righteousness as sadaca (giving) from the Old Testament. I knew this was wrong but didn't have a great answer. 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