It gets worse than this. The reason why some churches, usually of a
fundamentalist persuasion, insist on the KJV is that it was based on
Erasmus' Textus Receptus, the last stable manuscript before the massive
manuscript discoveries and analyses of the Enlightenment and later
periods. These discoveries changed parts of the text, for example,
bringing into question whether most of the last chapter of Mark really
belonged there, and raised questions about the actual text of many other
passages. The result is that establishing a reliable text has become a
matter of intense scholarship.
Today fundamentalists look back to Rev. 22:18-19, which reads:
18For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of
this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto
him the plagues that are written in this book:
19And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this
prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out
of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
They interpret that to mean that all textual scholarship since Erasmus
is condemned by this passage.
Herb
Subject: Re: Jesus was an English speaker!
No, no--The King James Bible, being the "authorized" and therefore the
only inspired version, proves that the apostles, and therefore Jesus,
spoke English. (It would be funny, if it weren't so sad, that there are
actually people who believe this.)
Tim
Tim Hadley
Research Assistant, The Graduate School
Ph.D. candidate, Technical Communication and Rhetoric
Texas Tech University
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Subject: Re: Jesus was an English speaker!
I remember a letter to the editor once that clarified the situation:
Jesus and all the biblical prophets spoke Latin actually. The proof?
The letter writer reminded us that medieval paintings of Jesus and other
biblical figures had them speaking Latin.
Larry
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Larry Beason, Associate Professor
Director of Composition
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL 36688-0002
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Let me quickly reply to Steve Roth's sigh, when he writes:
>A friend who occasionally attends
>Washington State legislature committee meetings in Olympia reported to
>me the follow statement by a legislator during a discussion of
bilingual
>education:
>
>"Well if the English language is good enough for the Lord Jesus
Christ,
it's good enough for me."
As a folklorist, I can report that this story has been going around at
least
since the sixties (when I saw it in the Indianapolis Star, in the
letters to
the editor column), and appears regularly in such columns and other such
venues, attributed to many different speakers. It may be that more than
one
writer or speaker actually says this, but it is still a contemporary
legend
and has questionable factual basis when reported second-hand.
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