Re: just a note

[Bob Hoffmann <escape@alt-escape.com>]

At 10:24 AM 6/20/2002 -0700, Scott Dredge wrote:
>Yes...well in my bible (King James version) Leviticus
>18:22 reads "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with
>womankind: it is abomination."  Interestingly enough,
>my sister-in-law has a newer revision in which
>Leviticus 18:22 reads "Homosexuality is absolutely
>forbidden, for it is an enormous sin".

The King James bible is perhaps the most beautiful biblical translation of 
the English language, but it is far from the most accurate.  Not only were 
allowances made for improving the beauty of the rendition, but there were 
also political influences as well.  At one point, an admonishment to kill 
evil-doers was changed in favor of killing witches (a category which 
probably didn't exist when the original was written), as witch hunts were 
all the rage in the time of King James.

Since you didn't state the source of the other line, I couldn't begin to 
guess at the accuracy in translation there.  For an accurate translation, 
you might want to buy "The Revised English Bible with the Apocrypha," which 
the U.S. News & World Report called "Probably the most accurate English 
version yet of the ancient writings on which the Bible is based."

For those who are interested, this renders Leviticus 18:22 as "You must not 
lie with a man as with a woman: that is an abomination."

Bob Hoffmann
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