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Did Shakespeare Contribute to the King James Bible?
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RE: Did Shakespeare Contribute to the King James Bible?
(June 5, 2017 at 9:39 pm)Succubus Wrote:
(June 5, 2017 at 11:37 am)Aliza Wrote: The question would have to be asked whether or not the KJV backs into the original Hebrew and Aramaic texts. As far as I know, it does mostly back it.

Where can I find the original Hebrew and Aramaic texts?

I suppose I should have said the Hebrew and Aramaic texts that significantly predate the publication of the KJV. I'm unaware that any group of people who don't think that the Christian bible is a translation from the Hebrew bible. This subject is not really one I'm well familiar with, though I'm intrigued now.


Wikipedia:

The Masoretic* Text is the authoritative Hebrew and Aramaic text of the Tanakh for Rabbinic Judaism. 

The Masoretic Text is widely used as the basis for translations of the Old Testament in Protestant Bibles, and in recent years (since 1943), for some versions of Catholic Bibles. In modern times the Dead Sea Scrolls have shown the Masoretic Text to be nearly identical to some texts of the Tanakh dating from 200 BCE but different from others.


Google:


The oldest extant manuscripts of the Masoretic Text date from approximately the 9th century CE. The Aleppo Codex (once the oldest known complete copy of the Masoretic Text, but now missing its Torah section) dates from the 10th century.







*I just wanted to mention that spell check wanted to change Masoretic to masochistic. It made me giggle.
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RE: Did Shakespeare Contribute to the King James Bible?
Most people don't know that the 1611 KJV included the Apocrypha as an integral part.
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RE: Did Shakespeare Contribute to the King James Bible?
(June 5, 2017 at 12:20 pm)Minimalist Wrote: We actually know the names of the men on the committee who wrote up the KJV.

http://www.christianity.com/church/churc...30052.html


Quote:Consider how preposterous it was to have a team of elite scholars writing for a largely illiterate public. We can only stand back in amazement at their achievement. Think how ludicrous the translation mandate was. It called for a product commissioned to reinforce a clear-cut royal political agenda, to be done by elite scholarly committees, reviewed by a self-serving bureaucracy, with ultimate approval reserved to an absolutist monarch. The final product was intended primarily for public and popular consumption. It was to be read orally -- intended more to be heard in public than to be read in private. How many works of literary genius do you recall that were done by committee?

Yeah... the divine right of kings.  You know, one of those "xtian values" that America was allegedly founded upon!

This is it right here. But not just with Christianity, the entire world in antiquity lived under ruling families. Even the Greeks and Romans and Asia and India back then. Even in Buddhism, Buddha mythology had even him being born of royalty. Humans worldwide mistook their good fortune, even if not coming from a god or God, still mistook their good fortune as coming from a divine place, either their ancestors or spirit world or mystical. Nobody back then understood evolution. Nobody back then understood that the reality is grouping and gain of resources were what created the societal success. Everyone was attaching magic to their success. 

Religion by any label really is nothing more than our species artificial excuse making in comic book form to explain why things happen. It is a reflection of our group survival but is is nothing but a placebo, a false perception.
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