To all the Faithful at Halleluyah Scriptures,
Last week I attended our local bible study group meeting here in Hong Kong.
As usual I took along my KJV Bible which had been presented to me in UK by my local junior church way back in 1960.
But what’s this? On the table in front of me was a purple covered Bible titled ‘Halleluyah Scriptures’. I looked at the Elders as if to say, ‘Not another so-called translation?’
For weeks previously I’d been scouring the internet for a modern-english untainted version of the Bible without success.
The widely used Jewish Publication Society’s 1917 Hebrew translation is in fact based on a revised english KJV under instruction to “remove all un-Jewish and anti-Jewish phrases, expressions, renderings, and usages…” and introduce traditional Jewish interpretation to reflect Jewish feeling, law, faith and tradition. It got worse with the publication, headed by non-Christian Jew, Harry M. Orlinsky in the 60’s, of The Torah, and in the mid 80’s the NJPS edited by ‘scholars from USA and Israel’. Need I say more?
Even the KJV, itself being the result of several revisions to the original Tyndale, leaves one to question whether it is a truly accurate and unbiased translation from the Hebrew and Greek of its time. Yet that is the best we have – until now it seems.
So what a joy it was to receive an as-near literal translation of the Hebrew text, particularly the Old Testament, uncontaminated by rabbinical interpretations, traditions and Zionist reflection.
Now we are able to follow and be enriched by the true Word of the Father.
May the spirit and vision of the original visionary live within all your hearts at ‘HalleluYah Scriptures’ and may your endeavours continue to be blessed in His Name. Blessings and thank you all, Bro G. (edited to protect names of believer in Hong Kong)
