Conservatives Rewriting the Bible to be more Right-Wing

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Seems legit, everything has to be worded just right so people can get brainwashed.This is not the first time words get changed or mistranslated. After all Mary was originally written as a "maiden" not as a "virgin".

'Maiden' and 'virgin' mean precisely the same thing. You're thinking of the word 'almah' which means 'young woman'.

That aside, re-writing the Bible to make it more conservative seems a bit of gilding the lily. Rather like re-writing 'MacBeth' to give it more of a Scottish flavor.

Boru

"almah" can mean young woman or maiden. Maiden is to describe a woman of child barren age that has not yet given birth.

"bethulah" is the word used for virgin, which is a women that never had sex/or is sexually pure.