"Cary Kittrell" <cary at afone.as.arizona.edu> wrote in message
news:ajgotb$mv9$1 at oasis.ccit.arizona.edu...
> In article <sj2mlu0ghurv97v52r1c0fpa9d4heq9i4v at 4ax.com> Bob LeChevalier
<lojbab at lojban.org> writes:
> <
> <>What Mr. Jefferson did then is much easier to do today, which is to
compare
> <>the original Greek and Hebrew to the King James English translations.
He
> <>was concerned about the "translational errors" which are due mainly to
the
> <>way the meaning of English words changed.
> <
> <That is NOT what he said, and that is NOT what he did in the Jefferson
> <Bible
> <http://www.angelfire.com/co/JeffersonBible/> <
> <>FOR EXAMPLE, the word "bastard"
> <>in "A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to
his
> <>tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD",
> <>Deuteronomy 23:2 used to mean "mongrel", not "illegitimate child".
> <
> <He did not include ANY of Deuteronomy in the Jefferson Bible
> <
> <[long completely irrelevant quote from his website, on all manner of
> <things like bastards and mongrels, Reagan, etc., having nothing to do
> <with the words he was supposedly responding too, or with ideas of
> <Jefferson, which the nincompoop displays not a shred of comprehension
> <of.]
> <
> <lojbab
>>
There's no such thing as a "Jefferson Bible", and it's sheer blasphemy
against Jesus Christ and an insult to the memory of Thomas Jefferson for you
to refer to it as such. Mr. Jefferson never called it a "bible", so it's
also an insult to two billion Christians in the world for you to trivialize
the Holy Bible like that.
Here's the definition of "bible":
Main Entry: bi·ble
Pronunciation: 'bI-b&l
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin biblia, from
Greek, plural of biblion book, diminutive of byblos papyrus, book, from
Byblos, ancient Phoenician city from which papyrus was exported
Date: 14th century
1 capitalized a : the sacred scriptures of Christians comprising the Old
Testament and the New Testament b : the sacred scriptures of some other
religion (as Judaism)
2 obsolete : BOOK
3 capitalized : a copy or an edition of the Bible
If he eliminated the entire Book of Deuteronomy, then it can't even be
referred to as a critique of the Holy Bible, so calling it "the Jefferson
Bible" can only make the jews happy.
John Knight
