Comments on: How Big Is Israel? BBC Regrets Believing Jews

By: BBC Sport Employee Who Edits Israel Page Hates Jews | Israellycool

BBC Sport Employee Who Edits Israel Page Hates Jews | Israellycool — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 20:28:02 +0000

[...] First I will bring you up to date on what I discovered on Wednesday. A change to the declaration of the size of Israel. I reported that first here. [...]

By: BBC, Israel und andere olympische Anmerkungen « Medien BackSpin

BBC, Israel und andere olympische Anmerkungen « Medien BackSpin — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:19:24 +0000

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By: Shlep

Shlep — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:56:56 +0000

They won’t be satisfied till Israel is reduced to a web site

By: Norman B.

Norman B. — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:31:38 +0000

I agree. Unitarianism got its biggest boost in New England. Or as one wit put it, Unitarians believe in the fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man and the neighborhood of Boston.

By: ziontruth

ziontruth — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:19:23 +0000

Interesting. But there’s a limit to how much you can correct the translations in a Christian setting, because some corrections are detrimental to Christology. For example, once you correct the translation of almah from “virgin” to “young woman,” there goes the Christian belief of the virgin birth, or at the very least the ability to connect it to the Tanakh. (Judaism holds Jesus to have been a historical figure, but rejects the virgin birth and resurrection accounts as borrowings from pagan mythology.)

By: Norman B.

Norman B. — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:45:57 +0000

These mistranslations are a big reason why John Harvard required his divinity students to learn the Bible in the original Hebrew, setting the high standards of scholarship that have persisted at his university. He never trusted King James.

By: ziontruth

ziontruth — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:30:01 +0000

A mistranslation. The King James Version of the Bible has plenty of those, the most egregious of which is “Thou shalt not kill” instead of “Thou shalt not murder,” which has far-reaching consequences, impacting one’s entire moral universe.

“Wailing Wall” would come out in Hebrew as kotel ha-b’khiyah (כותל הבכיה, “wall of crying”), which isn’t that far off. It is said Napoleon Bonaparte saw the Jews crying at the Kotel and remarked that a nation that persists in crying for the wall would inevitably return to possess it one day. Smart man, he was. For the likes of the BBC, the Western Wall is more readily connected with Mohammed’s flying horse (which is depicted in a dream, and Jerusalem is nowhere mentioned explicitly in the Koran) rather than Jewish history. It’s the revisionism that bothers me more than anything else, this denial of the Jewish connection to Eretz Yisrael that’s much worse than Holocaust Denial, as it wipes out 3000 years of evidence both tangible and spiritual in a single stroke of a Phakestinian-Arab-Islamic narrative.

By: mzk1

mzk1 — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:06:43 +0000

But when was it ever called that in Hebrew? How would you say it? It’s almost as bad as “Ten Commandments”, which doesn’t translate into Hebrew either.

By: Ariadne

Ariadne — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:18:56 +0000

Size of Israel cf Arab neighbours

By: Ariadne

Ariadne — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:03:34 +0000

From The Economist a map of "The True Size of Africa" I had a hard time finding GB until I expanded the thing. I'm not sure if there is a Middle East composite.