Judaism permitted scripture translation while other scriptural religions resisted it
Evidence
There is an interesting difference between the attitudes of the scriptural religions to this question. Jews decided at an early stage that it is permissible to translate scripture, and translations of the Hebrew Bible were made into Aramaic, later into Greek and into other languages, especially Judaeo-Arabic, Judaeo-Persian, and of course Judaeo-German, better known as Yiddish. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 138
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- QUESTION: The passage promises a contrast with other scriptural religions’ attitudes that presumably comes later in the book; worth chasing what those contrasts are.
- XREF: Ties to the reader’s interest in how religious traditions differ on translation and textual transmission — a theme in The Library: A Fragile History.