Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00260)

In a message dated 03/13/04 10:14:10 AM, bartl@sprynet.com writes:

>leonmaurer@aol.com wrote:
>> Thought you'd be the one to respond with anti semitic remarks. 
>> 
>> Maybe you'd like this commentary on JC better.
>> 
>> http://members.aol.com/graphinc/wwtmcjc.html
>
> I have read about a third of it, and have bookmarked it for later 
>perusal. It is a very interesting commentary; I have found several 
>things that I wish to research further already (one that comes to mind
>immediately is that I have been told by an Anglican Bishop that the King
>James Bible uses the Latin Vulgate as its major source, rather than the
>Hebrew and Greek documents, but never bothered to confirm this). Also,
>you left this link so heavily buried under quotes that I figured that it
>would bear repeating, higher in the message...

According to my information, King James insisted that every word in the 
Vulgate Bible had to be compared with the Hebrew and Greek versions before he would 
accept the translations. He also supposedly edited all the final 
interpretations in English, himself. There's a story that he supposedly called in a 
Rabbi from each of the twelve tribes of the Hebrews -- but I don't know where he 
found the lost 10. (Maybe they just "wandered" in when they heard there was a 
big reward out for them.:-) In any event, I'm sure he had a good number of 
Hebrew scholars as well as Greeks and Latins on his committee of experts.

Leon