Latin in the news(well, sort of)

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link here:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/interpreting-the-bible-just-got-more-complicated

Interesting read and a good repost to all those many fine people who think
The King James version is the be-all and end-all for any “real” Christian.
I can’t tell you how many Baptists and other Protestants have told me
over the years they could care less, and have no idea, what a “Vulgate Bible”
or a “Septuagint” is because the King James is the only real bible.

No hate, just saying,

Cathexis

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Interesting read

True enough, although there was a long tradition of allegorical readings of the Gospels, certainly in Greek (as the Daily Beast writeup admits); and those allegorical readings can be a lot more fanciful than what a rationalist might deem a literal reading to be…