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by sorokod 712 days ago
Do you feel as strongly about king James version of the bible?
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How is that relevant? Unlike Le Guin, the translators of the KJV knew the original languages.
To a degree. But a lot of the weirdness of the KJV (like how it mentions "unicorns" nine times despite the ancient Hebrews having no concept of that mythological beast) seem to be because the translators were also using a lot of the existing Latin Vulgate translation (where the Hebrew word now believed to mean "auroch" was mistranslated as "unicornis" as the Hebrew literally means "horned animal")