-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 99-06-05 14:25:27 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Hello, I am trying to find an accurate translation of John's Revelation from
the
>original Hebrew. Can you direct me?
There was no "original" in Hebrew. It was first written in Greek.
But since Revelations, like Daniel, is a BOGUS* book of prophecy, mostly
plagiarizing images found in OT prophets like Zechariah, Zephaniah, et al.,
you can get an idea of what the equivalent Hebrew might be by reading those
same OT prophets in Greek, in the SEPTUAGINT (the "Holy Bible" for the
original Christians), and noting what Greek words/phrases were used to
translate images from Hebrew. By this means you'll find, for example, that
"the Great Beast" in John was not unique but earlier used in prophecy to
describe the crocodile as symbol of the Pharaoh of Egypt. It's all just a
pastiche.
But that's probably not what you want to hear.
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*The Anchor Bible commentary on Revelations attributes it to the Jewish
followers of John the Baptist --more violently "zealous" than the Disciples--
with "Christ" references only inserted later, sometime after 70 AD. If you
read the Greek text expertly, you can distinguish a couple of distinct
"voices," e.g., the one addressing the Seven Churches, indicating passages
with different vocabulary and style, interpolated into the original.
The apocryphal "Book of Revelations," BTW, was only made canonical (accepted
as divinely inspired) relatively late and despite great opposition from the
best scholars in the early Church, who could not vouch for its authenticity,
since, for one thing, its tone DIFFERED SO GREATLY from --you might even say
CONTRADICTED-- the attitudes espoused by Jesus Christ and the disciples in
the Gospels, and for another, it had no hand-to-hand "pedigree" linking it
to any "John" alongside Jesus. It was finally allowed into the Canon for
nothing better than POLITICAL reasons -- a bone thrown to obtain the loyalty
of an otherwise nonconforming Greek faction which cultishly revered its
"John" more than the "Peter" (model for the Pope) that Rome regarded as
central to Church unity ... The Eastern Orthodox church STILL does not accept
the book as genuine.
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