{"id":899,"date":"2010-10-06T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/10\/translating-the-utras\/"},"modified":"2010-10-06T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T10:58:00","slug":"translating-the-utras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/10\/translating-the-utras.html","title":{"rendered":"Translating the &#8216;Utras"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I\u2019ve posted <a href=\"http:\/\/mandaeanbookofjohn.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/translating-utras.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an entry on the <em>Mandaean Book of John<\/em> translation project blog about a translation question<\/a>. 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