Friday, October 04, 2024

"Bosom position"? (Screenshot for John 1:18--Keener)

 Some have criticized the NWT translating John 1:18 with "bosom position"





HCSB: "No one has ever seen God. The One and Only Son-- the One who is at the Father's side-- He has revealed Him."

3 comments:

Duncan said...

https://brill.com/view/journals/vc/69/2/article-p123_2.xml

Sean Kasabuske said...

On what basis do some criticize the "bosom position" part of the rendering of John 1:18 found in the NWT?

Speaking for myself, I would like to see the WTS replace "only-begotten" with "unique," or place "unique" in the text and footnote "only-begotten" as a possible alternative (or vice versa), but I don't see an issue with the "bosom position" part.

Roman said...

Available here to https://www.jstor.org/stable/24754476

I wonder how much of the early disparaging of Christianity was both grounded in anti-semitism and class ideology. It seems that for Celsus that was quite a bit of it, for Lucian certainly class ideology was a part of it.