Hi Paul,
Last month I finished reading the five books of Moses, Now I'm in Joshua. I finished reading the 6th chapter of Joshua last night. My goal is to read all of the Old Testament in the Christian Bible.
Anyways, best regards,
Carl
paul vandenbrink <pvandenbrink@...> wrote:
Hi Carl
You could call it the written Torah or Chumash. We have an Oral
tradition or commentary on the 5 Books of Moses that we call the Oral
Torah.
Or you could say Tanach which includes all the books up until the
story of Ester and Mordechai. Happy Purim by the way.
We have some pretty good modern English translations by the way.
Regards, Paul V.
P.S. Torah has other meanings. For example, it is also used in the
sense of G-ds Law,
as determined from the 5 books of Moses.
P.P.S. This would be a very long term project for me.
I did transliterate the 23d Psalm into Shavian, tho.
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--- In shavian@..., carl easton <shavintel16@y...> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> I think it's awesome that you plan to transliterate the five books
of Moses, Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings from a modern translation.
In the Jewish Faith what are these books called together, by the way?
[If memory serves well the five books of Moses, are called the Torah.]
>
> best regards,
>
> Carl /kRal/
>
> paul vandenbrink <pvandenbrink@s...> wrote:
> The King James Version is very poetical, and has a relatively small
> stack of words.
> There are few minor disagreements on small number of words in the
> older translations. Supposedly, the new translations are closer to
> the original meaning. Anyway,
> I suppose I could transliterate a modern translation of the first 5
> books of Moses, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings.
> That covers the important stuff from my religous point of view.
>
> Regards, Paul Vandenbrink
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> --- In shavian@..., carl easton <shavintel16@y...>
wrote:
> > Hi Paul and others,
> >
> > I'm glad you agree with me on certain points of interest. Yes, I
> plan on transliterating the Holy Bible (Old and New Testament). As
> for which version I will first do the King James Version. Then my
> favorite alternate translation th New International Version. In my
> last posting I mentioned the "Standard Works" of my Church (The
> Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) These include, the
> Holy Bible (King James Version), the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine
> and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price. [Ethan has a website
> concerning a transliteration of the King James Bible into Shavian]
> >
> > However, I encourage all Shavian Enthusiast, not of my faith (if
> ambitious enough) to transliterate their Sacred Texts, to broaden
> the horizion of Shavian.
> >
> > And just like you Paul, I write with Shavian in my journal. I
> think my role to the Shavian Community should be to transliterate
> books into Shavian. I hope other Shavian Enthusiasts will take the
> opportunaty to make academic contributions to Shavian, so that
> Shavian will no longer be a "dead" alphabet, but have just as much
> vitality as T.O..
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Carl /kRal/
> >
> > paul vandenbrink <pvandenbrink@s...> wrote:
> > Hi Carl & the group
> > As for the role the Shavian Alphabet should play to literate
> English-
> > speaking world:
> > I find literacy even with the Traditional Orthography (T.O.) to a
> > constant challenge to stay up to date.
> > That's why I prefer Shavian over the T.O.
> > There isn't the struggle to pick up the correct pronunciation.
> > A lot of new English word are borrowed from french and have a
> variant
> > pronunciation (i.e. Ouevre)
> > I would like to be able to read as fast with Shavian as with T.O.,
> > though there is not enough literature to become super-swift at
> > reading Shavian.
> >
> > So, what I hoping is that someone will build a program to
> > transliterate existing texts into Shavian, so I can more practice.
> > It would be nice if their was a newspaper, even.
> >
> > I am glad to hear that Carl intends to translate the Bible into
> > Shavian. A modern translation I hope. The King James has some
> funny
> > pronunciations.
> >
> > I also think that this is an ambitious but very worthwhile goal.
> > I think one of the first few steps to exposing the English-
> speaking
> > world to the benefits of Shavian, is to bring out Shavian books,
> and
> > then to do all the other stuff it takes to give further exposure
> to
> > Shavian Alphabet.
> > We have to do what we can to propogate and deseminate our
favorite
> > writing system.
> > Hopefully revised enough to understandable by our American
> cousins.
> >
> > Regards, Paul V.
> >
> > --- In shavian@..., carl easton <shavintel16@y...>
> wrote:
> > > Hi Folks,
> > >
> > > Concerning the role Shavian should play to literate English-
> > speaking world: As for me I am highly literate with Traditional
> > Orthography (T.O.). However, I prefer Shavian over T.O.. I
would
> > like to be just as literate with Shavian as with T.O., though
> there
> > is not enough literature to become super-literate at reading
> > Shavian. So, what I would like to do is transliterate existing
> texts
> > into Shavian, once I get an internet-ready computer. And I will
> > first transliterate the "Standard Works" of my Church. Then I
> will
> > transliterate just about anything else the Shavian Community
would
> > like to see into Shavian.
> > >
> > > Though, that is ambitious it is a worthwhile goal. I think one
> of
> > the first few steps to exposing the English-speaking world to the
> > benefits of Shavian, to bring out Shavian books, then the other
> stuff
> > it takes to give further exposure to Shavian. And that is what I
> > hope we can do to publicize our favorite writing system --
Shavian.
> > >
> > > best regards,
> > >
> > > Carl /kRal/
> > >
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