-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 99-12-14 15:13:01 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Let me ask you this ... if there are not manuscripts and or written notes
>and or notations, who did the King James Committee copy their works from?
>It is my understanding that there are five copies of the Septuagint in
>various hands over the world. I've seen one copy with my own eyes about 20
>years ago. These seem to reflect what is written, to the "T", in what is
>commonly called the King James Bible.
The KJV translators did not rely on the Septuagint, which is a
frequently iffy Greek translation of ONLY the Old Testament, often
disagreeing with the Hebrew original.
(And I just happen to have on my shelves the full text of the Septuagint in
the original, and a word-for-word literal translation into English, plus a
concordance for its Greek.)
The Septuagint as it has come down to us includes numerous textual
interpolations --made apparently by early Greek-speaking Christians-- and
deliberate MIS-translations of the Hebrew found without exception in OLDER
texts of the Old Testament.
The KJV committee used the "Textus Receptus," a combination of the five
most authoritative MSS. of the NEW Testament [in existence up to the 16th
Century, that is -- more were found LATER in history] in Greek, compiled by
Dutch churchman Erasmus a century before, and the canonic ("Masoretic") text
of the OLD Testament in HEBREW.
Along with more than a little guidance in noting how St Jerome far
earlier translated both of those languages into Latin ...
Read (especially the closing sections) what the KJV translators
THEMSELVES explained in their OWN Preface:
http://www4.autoelect.com/BKJ/preface.htm
And for a look at the occasionally "unholy," crudely POLITICAL "hidden
agenda" of the overseers of King James' translation, and of some of the chief
translators, see:
http://www.dtl.org/versions/article/king-james.htm
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