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--- Bard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<< Jesus was born of a virgin >>
This was added later because at the time (the early centuries CE/AD),
orthodox Christianity was competing with Mithraism, Manicheism, and
assorted pagan religions which incorporated a virgin birth into their
belief system. Even Paul the Apostle, to whom most of the New Testament
is attributed, spoke of Jesus as "made of the seed of David according
to the flesh" (Romans 1:3). The Hebrew term "almah" in Isaiah 7:14 also
translates as "young woman." In the context of Isaiah this did not
imply a virgin birth. In the Septuagint translation of ca. 200 BC, used
by the early Christians, the Greek word parthenos is used. The
Septuagint translator took it to mean "young woman"; the author of the
Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament took it to mean "virgin" and
quoted it as such in Matthew 1:23. Even at the time the Bible was
translated into the KJV, the English word virgin had the double meaning
of "young woman" (maiden, presumably unmarried) and "woman who has not
had sexual intercourse," which, in those days, was, to a certain
degree, one and the same.
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