Carter's Hero Goofs Again
Derek Pomery dpomery@cuc.edu
Sun, 31 Jan 1999 10:47:58 -0500 (EST) (00917819278, Pine.LNX.3.95.990131104513.26097A-100000@helix.cs.cuc.edu)
Is there someone who could provide a little more information on the text
discussed below? I assume the discussion is on the contradiction in
creation order, and past attempts at reconciliation. I am interested
since a speaker at our school will be talking about this subject, and I
was hoping to have a certain familiarity with it.
Oh, and a search at:
http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible
With all versions displayed option shows translations are fairly well
divided on this issue.
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Tim Taylor wrote:
>
> Tim
> The following quote is from Turkel's original "harmonization" of
> the Genesis accounts:
>
> "Poor King James, people are always pickin' on him. AS OUR MODERN
> TRANSLATIONS INDICATE, Gen. 2:19 should say, the Lord God had
> formed every beast, etc"
>
> Now, the new harmonization reads:
>
> "For quite some time now the classical solution to this problem
> has been to do what the NIV (BUT NO OTHER VERSION THAT I KNOW OF)
> has done, and that is to render the verb in verse 2:19 not as
> simple past tense, but as a pluperfect, so:
>
> Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of
> the field and all the birds of the air."
>
> So Jason, your hero is now trying to weasel out of either an
> error or outright lie he made in his original harmonization
> (which happens to be the one that got you in trouble in the
> first place).
>
> For some odd reason, he seems to have removed his original
> "harmonization" from his web page. Don't you get embarrassed
> relying on someone who spends most of his time name calling,
> and apparently can't get his facts straight?
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