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Sacred Texts - 2008
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Tower of Babel: The Language of Religion
06/07/2008
While the Christian Bible is reproduced in many languages, and is often updated to modern English usage, the Qur'an is only sacred in its original 7th century Arabic. How important is language to the spiritual meaning of sacred texts? Can we translate the word of God without distorting it? On this Encounter Emre Azizlerli explores the importance of spiritual language in religious experience.
For copyright reasons, this program is unavailable as an MP3 file, as real audio, and in transcript form. This program was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
