Friday, September 3, 2010

So long as we are bailing out of dated translations

Here is a Wisconsin monk who would like to see the New American Bible retired and replaced. Hear hear!

His article really is hilarious:

In Hebrew, this passage is one of scripture’s most complex pieces of poetry. In the King James, it is one of the best-known texts in the English-speaking world. In the text which most American Catholics hear each week at Mass, the creation story sounds a bit like a set of IKEA instructions.
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