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Post #36,112
by wharris2
4/22/02 11:28:50 AM
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New Most new translations have copyrights
Bibles that they put teams of scholars on to provide the latest and greatest translation pretty much have to be copywritten, otherwise some publisher somewhere could lift it and sell their own "authoritative" versions.

Something like the King James bible, sure, that can't be copywritten. (Perhaps any introductory comments might be, but the text itself can't.)
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Post #36,114
by drewk
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4/22/02 11:32:44 AM
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New Not if you believe in literalism
If (as many denominations teach) the written text is the literal Word of God, then how can you place a copyright on it? If, however, the printed text represents the (copyright-able) work product of the translators, then wouldn't you have to admit that the text is the word of them?
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Post #36,116
by tseliot
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4/22/02 12:20:48 PM
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New worK of them, not worD of them is what copyright is about
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A stupid despot may constrain his slaves with iron chains; but a true politician binds them even more strongly by the chain of their own ideas;...despair and time eat away the bonds of iron and steel, but they are powerless against the habitual union of ideas, they can only tighten it still more; and on the soft fibres of the brain is founded the unshakable base of the soundest of Empires."

Jacques Servan, 1767
Post #36,117
by wharris2
4/22/02 12:22:21 PM
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New If someone is that literal
They need to learn the original Hebrew and Aramaic and Greek and read from the source documents.
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Post #36,119
by drewk
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4/22/02 12:29:22 PM
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New Absolute agreement
I've always found that ironic.
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     The Bible has a copyright? - (SpiceWare) - (7) - April 22, 2002, 09:52:10 AM EDT
         Most new translations have copyrights - (wharris2) - (4) - April 22, 2002, 11:28:50 AM EDT
             Not if you believe in literalism - (drewk) - (3) - April 22, 2002, 11:32:44 AM EDT
                 worK of them, not worD of them is what copyright is about -NT - (tseliot) - April 22, 2002, 12:20:48 PM EDT
                 If someone is that literal - (wharris2) - (1) - April 22, 2002, 12:22:21 PM EDT
                     Absolute agreement - (drewk) - April 22, 2002, 12:29:22 PM EDT
         Yes indeed - (orion) - April 22, 2002, 06:11:06 PM EDT
         A necessary evil. - (static) - April 22, 2002, 11:12:10 PM EDT

Caveat emptor.
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