Re:Silver amulet is the oldest evidence of Christianity nort...
by BoxOfRain on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @07:37AM
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I wonder if this is what radicals like Gerrard Winstanley had in mind when developing the English Reformation as chance for social reform as well? This quote for example suggests he was I think:
>In the beginning of Time, the great Creator Reason, made the Earth to be a Common Treasury, to preserve Beasts, Birds, Fishes, and Man, the lord that was to govern this Creation; for Man had Domination given to him, over the Beasts, Birds, and Fishes; but not one word was spoken in the beginning, That one branch of mankind should rule over another.
Re:Silver amulet is the oldest evidence of Christianity nort...
by timthorn on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @07:04AM
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There's 3 part Radio 4 series from a while ago on the King James Version, with one of the 45 minute episodes focussed on the translation of the work:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x3x68
Re:Silver amulet is the oldest evidence of Christianity nort...
by FearNotDaniel on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @06:26AM
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Great example. See also “thou shalt not kill” which would contradict tons of the surrounding text, if that is actually what the original Hebrew said.
This is just one example. There are other instances where a word is a loanword from Greek or Latin because it is an early technical term. For example "sanctification" is taken directly from a Latin technical term that is translated that way because of how early Latin translators chose to translate the Greek.