Problems with missionaries

[ImAHebrew]

I don't know what a "blandishment" is. The JPS actually reads:

Daniel 11:32 (NJPS): "He will flatter with smooth words those who act wickedly toward the covenant, but the people devoted to their God will stand firm."

The JPS that you're quoting is not the real JPS translation. There was a translation put out by the Jewish Publication Society in 1917, which was very KJV-ish. The same JPS released a completely redone translation (with no affinity for the KJV) in 1985, which was released in its second edition in 1999. It is best to just forget about the JPS 1917, or at least label it as JPS 1917 and not simply as JPS, since it is no longer the JPS translation. Technically, the NJPS (New JPS) is the JPS translation today.

Even if we were to use the translation you provided, though, what makes you think that the word "corrupt" there refers to missionaries? Who is the "he" in this verse, and why do you think it means "missionaries"?

I feel like "corrupt missionaries" reminds me of "crooked Hillary." Is it not enough to say that you are opposed to missionaries? Most of us in this online community have real problems with missionaries and their activities. I just don't see how "corrupt" is a good word to add to their name. Especially, since they are not "corrupt" most of the time. They really believe that what they are doing is in service of the truth, and they think that they have the truth that we are lacking. They aren't accepting bribes or somehow living in hypocrisy toward their own faith (as far as I know).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jewish...ica_Tanakh

Text of the NJPS can be found online here: https://www.sefaria.org/texts/Tanakh

Shabbat Shalom Jason, whether it is "corrupted missionaries" or "deceitful missionaries," I really don't see much of a difference.  Even in the NT, they recognized this:

  (Jude 1:10) But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

  (2Pet 2:19) While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

  (2Pet 2:12) But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

So even the writings that the "corrupted/deceitful missionaries" use, they even admit to corruption.  But if you do not like me to use the word "corrupted" to describe the missionaries, I will refrain and just use "deceitful" or "delusional" missionaries, if you prefer.  Blessings in The Name, ImAHebrew.