Re: Babel in the east or not?
| From: | Clinton Moreland-Stringham <morelanc@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 16, 1998, 23:39 |
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On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, John Cowan wrote:
> The King James version is by intention a direct translation of the
> Hebrew, which I do not read, but the Vulgate seems unambiguous:
> "de oriente invenerunt" = "they traveled *from* the east".
That may have been their intention, but it certainly wasn't
anything near what they actually did! The King James Version is plagued
with retranslations that corresponded to James' preferences...
Clinton