Translation Frustration

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

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Dan McClellan (0:35)

So Tyndale translated the New Testament into English 1525, 26 This was still considered problematic.

Dan Beecher (0:45)

Bordering on heretical?

Dan McClellan (0:46)

Well, it resulted in him being burned at the stake.

Dan Beecher (0:49)

Okay, so yeah, not just bordering on.

Dan McClellan (0:52)

It was only a couple years after he was executed that they were like, you know what? I think we're gonna go with this English Bible thing.

Dan Beecher (1:01)

History is just littered with people who were killed for their work, and then later everybody was like, no, this is the good stuff.

Dan McClellan (1:07)

Yeah.

Dan Beecher (1:08)

We'll just stick with this.

Dan McClellan (1:14)

Hey everybody, I'm Dan McClellan.

Dan Beecher (1:16)

And I'm Dan Beecher.

Dan McClellan (1:17)

And you are listening to the Data Over Dogma podcast, where we increase public access to the academic study of the Bible and religion, and we combat that pesky misinformation about the same, or at least the spread of that misinformation about the same. This is what happens when I go off script and just try to add a lib, is I just screw it all up.

Dan Beecher (1:38)

Here's the thing, we, yeah, it's easier to, I don't know, is it easier to combat the spread of a concept rather than the concept itself? Yeah, probably.

Dan McClellan (1:48)

We try to do both, I think.

Dan Beecher (1:49)

We're gonna do both.

We're in combat mode. We're in full tactical misinformation gear.

Dan McClellan (1:56)

We are both wearing green.

Dan Beecher (1:59)

That's right. So we're blending in with whatever.

Dan McClellan (2:02)

Although mine's bright green with yellow on it, where it says the incredible Hulk.

Yeah. So how are things?

Dan Beecher (2:11)

Things are good, man. I wanted to dive in right off the bat to discussing the cruise slash tour that we are going to be doing at the beginning of October.

Dan McClellan (2:24)

Yes.

Dan Beecher (2:24)

Because slots are filling up, but there is still space available, and we'd really like to fill all of the slots if we can. It's going to be great. It's a Mediterranean cruise with all of the luxurious, wonderful things that are contained in that, that people have come to expect.

Amazing food and just awesome experiences.

You can't go wrong with the Mediterranean. It's going to be beautiful. We're leaving from Rome. We're headed down to Naples. We're going to, all the way over to Turkey and Athens and gorgeous Greek islands where you can have all, you know, where you can take pictures of the blue roofs, buildings and everything.

Dan McClellan (3:10)

Yes.

Dan Beecher (3:11)

And maybe, Dan, you should talk a little bit about, and we don't have this all fully planned out yet, but what we do know is that for a lot of these places, we are going to take you on excursions that you cannot get anywhere else. So talk a little bit about that.

Dan McClellan (3:25)

We're working with Sacred Space Tours, which is the tour company that we're collaborating with, and they've got buses chartered for us. So in those locations where there are biblically relevant sites or museums or things like that, we're going to head out and take a look, including Naples. We're going to try to get as much in as we can of Ephesus.

Athens is going to be a big one. We're going to see what we can do on Crete. And now places like Santorini, places like Mykonos, you're going to have to find something to keep you busy and entertained.

Dan Beecher (4:01)

It's going to be torture. It's going to be torture.

Dan McClellan (4:04)

It will be rough, but...

Dan Beecher (4:05)

My understanding is there's nothing good there, but we'll make the best of it. We're going to have a wonderful time.

I think we're still working out the kinks on this, that we will also probably do a couple days in Rome, either before or after the tour, if you want to, as an add-on.

Dan McClellan (4:28)

As an add-on, it'll be a couple of days in Rome so we can get to see more of the sites there. And I'm hoping to get into the Catacombs and see some of the artwork and things down there. So yeah, that'll be something that we're going to do tack on to the end there.