Just What We Needed: The LOLCat Bible

Byhenry October 21, 2007

Prowlog

1 In teh land of Uz wuz a man calded Job. Teh man wuz goodz, afraid of teh Ceiling Cat and evilz.2 Teh man hadz seven sunz and tree doters,3 And lots of sheepz and camlez and rinoceruseses and servnts, srsly.4 His sunz tok turns mading cookies, and they all eated them.5 And Job wuz liek “Oh noes! Wut if cookies were sin? Gota prey, just in cased.”

So goes the LOLCat Bible of Job 1:1-4, which the LOLCat Bible site suggests as a good example of how to translate–for the LOLCat Bible, of course!

Perhaps someone needs a life. Then again, perhaps not …

HT: meeyauw.

Use of the Old Testament in the New Testament – Isaiah 7:14 and Hosea 11:1

Byhenry December 8, 2009

With a recent flurry of posts regarding the way in which the Old Testament is used in the New, at least peripherally, I wanted to call attention to one written from a different perspective. The post is Isaiah 7, Nativity, and the Theotokos, written by Mark Olson, who speaks from an Orthodox perspective. He discusses…

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David Ker is at It Again!

Byhenry January 4, 2011

David Ker has started an interesting series. As usual, he’s doing something very different, and the result is some interesting posts. He uses a spreadsheet to randomly choose a chapter from the King James Version and then he writes a post about it. He has an announcement about the series, and I’d suggest his post…

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Psalm 51 in The Voice

Byhenry July 31, 2012

I’ve been including The Voice Bible in my lectionary reading for the last couple of weeks. My early impression was that it was fairly good as a paraphrase, though the italics, while fairly consistent, were a bit distracting. I thought they were unnecessary. I was wrong. I have yet to do any sort of objective…

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Why I Like the REB

Byhenry July 25, 2006

A friend recently e-mailed with the following request: Tell me why you like the REB. First let me qualify what I mean by liking a translation. There are many factors that go into making a translation suitable for a particular purpose or person. Without knowing that context, it’s impossible to give a meaningful answer to…

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Comments for NIV Revision Committee

Byhenry December 23, 2009

Wayne Leman reminds us that comments for the NIV2011 revision are only open until the end of December. I never can make a final decision on these things, which would make me a lousy translation committee member, but if you have suggestions now is the time!

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Good Point, Bad Exegesis

Byhenry June 1, 2006

John the Methodist on Locusts and Honey has an excellent post on sexual ethics and the exegesis behind it. He discusses the misuse of the story of David and Bathsheba in order to make a point that was nonetheless a good one. When he encountered this in a small group discussion, John was silent on…

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Quietpaths says:

October 22, 2007 at 2:56 pm

If we did not have teens around I might not understand this. What a riot. Wut if cookies were sin? Thank you! LOL

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