Yah Tselem wrote:James I'm going to buy logos over the next week or so and maybe I could help if that's ok. It seems you put the primary meanings(taking into account context) in bold and then the rest of the meaning in parenthesis. Do you think silver addition of logos would suffice? I want to get more involved in anything that might lead to people coming to know the Truth about Yahweh.
I'm doing this as much for myself as for others, it is giving me the opportunity to study every word of scripture, literally, so I would encourage anyone that wants to, to do it.
As for helping, if you want to check mine and find anything that i may have got wrong, or add insight that i may have missed I'm open to that.
If by help you mean divide it up and you translate some chapters or books and I do others. I want to translate all of it my self, so that I will have studied it, I'm even translating the verses Yada has already done, so that I can study them.
But it would be nice to have some one to help me though difficult verses. Someone who I could use as a sound board and who could offer alternatives to me.
As for the format, I decided to use Yada's formating style, because it makes it easier to use as a study tool. So I try to translate it accurately in the bold and then place the Hebrew and the amplified definition in the parenthesis. A fully amplified translation is a bit tricky to read.
As for the Silver edition, I use the Original Languages edition, which is cheaper and has less. Looking at the list there are a few things that OL has that Silver doesn't, but they are nothing I would worry about having. The OL is about $700 less than the Silver, and in my opinion most of the books that you get that aren't in the OL are not useful. It does come with several more interlinears, several history and culture books, which could be good, but not necessary for translating, more maps and photos which are nice but not necessary, a couple of extra ancient text, and the pronunciation tools which would be nice but not necessary. Other than that it comes with a bunch of things in "church" history, ministry teachings, sermon compilation, apologetics, devotionals, counseling, preaching and teaching, reviews, references and commentaries, and a lot more English translations.
So in other words Silver has a few extras, but in my opinion not worth the price difference over OL. So unless you have the money to spend, I would go with the OL, the OL was designed just for word study, whereas the other packages are designed mostly for Clergy and such.