The Bible has been "updated," retranslated, perhaps dumbed down, for a modern audience.
Would anyone really misunderstand the phrase "stoned to death" to mean "to die of a drug overdose"?
Many of the changes are banal; some are controversial; others are weird.
"Foreigners will no longer be called 'aliens,' because that makes too many people think of space travellers."
You'll never mistake the Bible for sci-fi again.
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There was a mid-60's version of the New Testament ('Good News for Modern Man') that was used by some folks in the church I attended as a teenager. I thought the language was horrible; it had no poetry.
Just give me the King James version... or at least an RSV. Not surprising, perhaps, that in the obsolete skill quiz I am Latin.
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