Hello Augusto,
The original sense of 'mansion' is just that, 'a place where one stays' (from
the Latin 'manere', meaning 'to stay'). Remember that the King James Bible is
from around 1611.
P
On Thursday, 30 November 2017, 17:57:19 GMT, Augusto Pinto
<pinto...@gmail.com> wrote:
Paul Melo e Castro privately alerted me to the King James Bible and also
several other Bible versions of John 14:2.
Well I must admit that I was ignorant about the Biblical significance of the
title and failed to do due diligence by not googling the phrase. Otherwise I’d
have found http://biblehub.com/john/14-2.htm
Nevertheless my charge that “A House of Many Mansions” is incongruous is not
incorrect for the King James and other versions of the Bible that follows this
translation are inaccurate in the first place.
This is evident from the fact that subsequent and more modern translations of
the Bible have rendered the phrase as “My father’s house has many rooms” (New
International Version); “There is more than enough room in my father’s home”
(New Living Translation); “In my father’s house are many rooms” (English
Standard Version; Borean Study Bible etc).
Best Augusto
On 30-Nov-2017, at 12:39 PM, Augusto Pinto <pinto...@gmail.com> wrote:
Of the five books that are to be published, one title caught my eye: A House of
Many Mansions: Goan Literature in Portuguese: An Anthology of Original Essays,
Short Stories and Poems Edited by Paul Melo e Castro and Cielo G Festina.
Since a mansion itself is a large house I thought that the title seemed a bit
incongruous.
Also the cover forgets to mention that the work is translated (which I presume
it is or why else would the cover be in English)
Thus the book carries all the telltale signs of a certain Frederick Noronha’s
publishing fingerprints.Augusto
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On 29-Nov-2017, at 2:44 PM, Leonard Fernandes <leonard.fernan...@gmail.com>
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We are releasing a slew of new titles during the forthcoming GALF, one
published through a joint imprint between Goa, 1556 and CinnamonTeal
Publishing. We hope you will get your copy from the Dogears bookstall during
the Festival.
Please see the attachment for more details about the books.
With best wishes,
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