Comments on: More proof of Bible

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:01:10 +0000

Fear not, Meryl. I’m well aware that the KJV was at best a fair translation 400 years ago based on only a handful of manuscripts, some of doubtful accuracy. Even if it were a flawless rendering of the Hebrew, the English language has changed in the past four centuries.

Just to be nitpicky, since the King James is written in English – not in the original Hebrew – it may well be a poor translation but hardly be a corrupt editing of the original. No one has ever been able to corrupt the original text, as evidenced by the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran.

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:53:20 +0000

Try here. Bob, I wouldn't advise using the translations from the King James Bible. I'd go with Jewish scholars' translations. The King James version is notorious for its edits of the original text. At least, to us.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:43:58 +0000

Please correct me if I’m mistaken, but the City of David is the area immediately south of the Temple Mount (on the west side of the Kidron Valley). North of the Valley of Hinnom. BTW, Hinnom is also known as Gehenna — the place where the garbage of the city was dumped and burned — hence the Hebrew name given to the place of eternal burning. In the King James Translation “hell”.

By: Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:18:45 +0000

At the least it shows that 1) the Jews really were in Judah and Israel two and a half millenia ago, contrary to Arab lies (as Meryl points out), and 2) that even if written later the Biblical books have a basis in fact, since they retain the memory of real people.

But if archaeologists had dug up the Deuteronomistic History on clay tablets from the library of a ruined city buried for 2500 years it would be hailed as a fantastic, wonderful find and the account used without reservations to reconstruct the history of the region.

By: Backseat Blogger

Backseat Blogger — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:04:18 +0000

I have to disagree Meryl. What’s written is not necessarily what ‘true.’ This is particularly the case when dealing with the early history of the Israel/Judah kingdoms. There is a whole history of ascribing to earlier kings what was actually built/written later. witness ascribing the song of songs, psalms, and Kohelet to Solomon. A later example of that would be ascribing authorship of the Zohar to Talmudic Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai rather than the much later Moses de Leon

By: Rahel

Rahel — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:48:06 +0000

Bethlehem is down the road a piece.

By: John M.

John M. — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:43:56 +0000

What’s the difference between the City of David and Bethlehem?