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Bible, Thora and Koran are all good for that purpose because even if you don't know them in your own language, you can compare the foreign language version with
by jlg23 7y ago
Bible, Thora and Koran are all good for that purpose because even if you don't know them in your own language, you can compare the foreign language version with your native version verse by numbered verse.
So are publications by international bodies like the UN (though those tend to deal less with sex, drugs and rock-and-roll than the religious books).
- Finnucane 7y agoI'd think that would not be very reliable considering how much variation there is among bible translations even in one language. For instance, if you compare some passages of the Jewish Publication Society translation of the Tanakh with some Christian translations of the OT, you might wonder if they were actually referring to the same original text.
- en-us 7y agoThis is true of all translation I think. Apart from the simplest of sentences, there is usually more than one way to phrase something. Different styles of translation account for this differently, e.g. some seek to make literal word for word translations while others try to preserve higher level semantics. So those styles may produce different sentences and they can both be right.