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echo: edge_online
to: Joe Bruchis
from: Joe Bruchis
date: 2009-04-10 21:52:40
subject: The King James fallacy

You tow make fun of Rambam, which is fine, but how about this Kings
translation into the words you so cherish? You bow to King James' beliefs,
not those of G-d. You are fakes and you don't realize it.

The Authorized King James Version is an English translation of the
Christian Bible begun in 1604 and first published in 1611 by the Church of
England. The Great Bible was the first "authorized version"
issued by the Church of England in the reign of King Henry VIII.[4] In
January 1604, King James I of England convened the Hampton Court Conference
where a new English version was conceived in response to the perceived
problems of the earlier translations as detected by the Puritans, a faction
within the Church of England.


The king gave the translators instructions designed to guarantee that the
new version would conform to the ecclesiology and reflect the episcopal
structure of the Church of England and its beliefs about an ordained
clergy. The translation was by 47 scholars, all of whom were members of the
Church of England. In common with most other translations of the period,
the New Testament was translated from the Textus Receptus (Received Text)
series of the Greek texts. The Old Testament was translated from the
Masoretic Hebrew text, while the Apocrypha were translated from the Greek
Septuagint (LXX), except for 2 Esdras, which was translated from the Latin
Vulgate.
While the Authorized Version was meant to replace the Bishops' Bible as the
official version for readings in the Church of England, it was apparently
(unlike the Great Bible) never specifically "authorized",
although it is commonly known as the Authorized Version in the United
Kingdom. However, the King's Printer issued no further editions of the
Bishops' Bible; so necessarily the Authorized Version supplanted it as the
standard lectern Bible in parish church use in England. In the Book of
Common Prayer (1662), the text of the Authorized Version replaced the text
of the Great Bible -- the Epistle and Gospel readings -- and as such was
"authorized" by Act of Parliament.[5] In the United States, the
Authorized Version is known as the King James Version. The earliest
appearance in print of the phrase "authorized version", to mean
this particular version of the bible, was published in 1824.[6] The phrase
'King James version' first appeared in print in 1884.[7]
By the first half of the 18th Century, the Authorized Version was
effectively unchallenged as the sole English translation in current use in
Protestant churches. Over the course of the 18th Century, the Authorized
Version supplanted the Latin Vulgate as the standard version of scripture
for English speaking scholars.

How can such a text be trusted as not being strongly biased by the voews of
those that translated it? You two are afraid to answer this question.

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