From: utzoo!decvax!genradbo!mitccc!jfw Newsgroups: net.followup Title: Re: Have you read your Bible? - (nf) Article-I.D.: mitccc.274 Posted: Tue Jan 25 23:29:02 1983 Received: Wed Feb 2 04:45:20 1983 References: yale-com.716 I have read the Bible (KJV) cover to cover, decided that most of the New Testament was fairly dreary stuff written by pompous clerics, and confined further ramblings to the first four chapters thereof (which form the "reference text" from which the later chapters diverge significantly). I have not read the Bible in the original language, but my brother learned Greek for that very purpose. He relates similar interesting examples of creative translation, none of which I can remember, alas.