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CORRESPONDENCE Phraseologv Berkeley, Cal. To the Editors: I read Noonan's ''The Devious Employees" [Oct. 28] last week and thought it a sort of fun article: good sense of humor, proper...
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...The NAB has clouded over the point completely with its presentation of Zacchaeus who "was tryirtg to see what Jesus was like," and of the "Son of M a n . . . come to search out and save what was lost...
...All stewards are indeed employees and the latter term is more familiar to the average reader...
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...Perhaps the worst example of this sort of error is the translation of the Greek tel6nis as "tax collector" instead of "publican...
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...Thus, as Noonan points out, they use "employee" instead of "steward...
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...This word does not mean just any tax collector...
...If an Italian novel is set in Venice and if the author says that one of his characters went from here to there in a gondola, a translator does not write that he went "by public transportation" even though gondolas are actually available for public transportation in Venice...
...They paid a lump sum to the Romans for the privilege of collecting some special tax, for example, a toll, for a stated period of time...
...Maybe the keepers of the gulag archipelagoes and the apartheid archipelagoes will blanch before the deeds they inevitably assign themselves...
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...Then came my own preparation for the Sunday homily, the story of wee Zacchaeus in the sycamore...
...There was a great temptation to collect the maximum amount by hook or crook, even by cheating...
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...They are highly competent scholars and they write excellent English elsewhere...
...To the Editors: Three cheers for John T. Noonan, Jr...
...After all, those people who work for the Internal Revenue Service are not traditional objects of our contempt...
...So "publican" had a pejorative meaning, as "loan shark" does with us...
...No, their mistake was in trying too hard to make the text understandable by substituting familiar generic terms for the more technical terms in the text...
...To appreciate an Italian novel set in Venice one has to know at least a little about that city...
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...Although it would appear that Zacchaeus was seeking (ezetei of 19:3) Jesus, it really was Jesus, the Son of Man, who had come to seek (zetesai) Zaccbaeus, to seek and to save the lost (19:10...
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...No wonder publicans were despised...
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...Isn't understanding the New Testament worth a little trouble too...
...The publicans were a special breed...
...The translation has missed two of Luke's points...
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...It is too soon to tell...
...But not all employees are stewards...
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...I take "mean" to indicate Jesus's intention, his desire...
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...The Christian tradition looks back to one Coming and awaits another...
...It emphasizes, not Jesus's de#ire, but the fulfillment of God's plan...
...Thus the enemies of Jesus are said to criticize him because he was "a glutton and drunkard, a lover of tax collectors and those outside the law" (Mt...
...The very point of the parable depends on the fact that the man in question was not just an average employee, an assistant cook, a ploughman, a barnyard helper...
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...The word "must" occurs frequently in both Lk's Gospel and Acts...
...I. P . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337 Too Much With Us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400 The Memory Thereof . . . . . . . . . . . . 465 The Night the Lights Went On . . . . 530 A Tale of Midnight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594 Mark Rudd Returns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656 Peacetime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723 The Big Book on the War . . . . . . . . 788 Television The Last Syllable of Recorded Time, by Colin L Westerb~.~, Jr...
...I do not think, however, that the trouble is with the translators' "poor grasp of English...
...One has to find out what a "steward" did in those days and what a "publican" was...
...To the Editors: In Mark Taylor's interesting "Novels Or War Novels" [Sept...
...So the Confraternity mistranslation leads to absurdities...
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...Jesus must suffer, he must announce the good news of the kingdom, he must be handed over...
...But that is not Lk's point, nor his Greek which translates literally, "For today I must remain in your house...
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...So, too, he must enter Zacchaeus's home as a sign that, in the Father's plan, his loving salvation is offered also to sinners...
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...Along with the visitors from outer space and the manipulators of inner space, there is, writes Steiner, a "striking renaissance of theological thought and argument . . . . So much of what intuition now compels us to recognize as indispensable, and compels us to revert to even in disagreement, draws its powers from sources implicitly or explicitly theological . . . . It would be foolish to predict a religious revival in any formal and dogmatic sense (though there are significant pointers in just that direction in both the Jewish and Christian worlds...
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...In the original Greek, Lk has enclosed it with'~n a neat pun...
...His article "The Devious Employees" [October 18] calls attention, at long last, to the shoddiness of the Confraternity Version of the (Continued on page 831) NEWS & VIEWS: 802 CORRESPONDENCE: 803 EDITORIALS: 803 WASHINGTON REPORT: A Star in the East: Frank Getlein 80S TRE SADAT INITIATIVE: Wilson Carey McWiiliams 806 IN A SOUTH AFRXCAN PRISON: Ran Javers 808 MANY ADVENTS, ONE MARY: Abigail McCarthy I I 0 GOD aE~aOMES MAN: Norbert F. Gaughan 811 IffAN BECOMES GOD: John Garvey 1515 TDE ANGEL GARRIEL DIS$1ENTS: Peter Stein]els 1510 THE SCREEN: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...28] last week and thought it a sort of fun article: good sense of humor, proper amount of outrage, a couple of good points scored...
...Not like Yeats's rough, apocalyptic beast but like tired commuters, our feet aching, our arms full of the plain parcels in which we have wrapped our modest hopes...
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...277 Omar Gatalats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757 Grandpa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757 Annie Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 Harlan County, U.S.A . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Sandaka # 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659 Stroszek (Part l ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596 Strmzek (Part 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624 King Kong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 The Last Remake of Beau Geste .. 532 The Last Tycoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Lumiere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . t14 The Marquise of O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Men of Bronze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757 New York, New York . . . . . . . . . . . . 467 Orca the Killer Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . 532 Providence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Roseland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757 Sale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 820 Star Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433 Three Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369 The Turning Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 790 Welcome to L. A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 The Stage, by Gerald Weales The Archbishop's Ceiling . . . . _9 . . . . . 431 Ashes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370 Dirty Linen & New-Found-Land .. 180 No Man's Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . : . . . . 20 The Stage, by William T. Listen Ali's Well That Ends Well . . . . . . . . 564 The Press, by Thomas Powers Revolution That Wasn't . . . . . . . . . . 19 Back to the Cold War . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Winners, Losers, Dreamers . . . . . . . . 147 What I Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 The Road to Tel Aviv . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 I. F. K.-R...
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