Subject: Re: TX at it again
Gave me a flashback. We had to memorize a sonnet by Chaucer. Didn't understand most of it. It was gibberish to my (and most other's) ears. I guess that's what you get when a high school teacher has a PhD in English Lit (he should have been a professor).

Back to the bible, however. I believe it was originally written in Hebrew and/or Aramaic. The earliest translations were Greek, but that wasn't the original language. The Dead Sea Scrolls are mostly Hebrew and Aramaic, as I recall. Most of the English translations are from the Greek. So, we're already starting with a translation of a translation in getting into English.

I'm not a scholar on this, but it is my understanding that the KJV is not a great translation in terms of accuracy. It is the bible I had when I was young, and our Bible As Literature class (high school) used it.