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  • From: JoeWallack AT aol.com
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Definite Article 7:14
  • Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:53:17 EDT


HH:
Dear Joseph,

JW:
> Interestingly, the
> NASB translators decided on "young woman" for 7:14 but were vetoed by the
> American Bishops who retained "virgin". This is why I don't find authority

> authoritative here.
>


HH:
I doubt it was the NASB translators, because they are Protestant:

http://www.afcministry.com/NASB_Translators.htm

The translators come from Presbyterian, Methodist, American Baptist,
Disciples, Southern Baptist, Nazarene, General Association of Regular
Baptist, Congregational, Independent Baptist, Free Methodist, and still
other denominations. Some have international reputations.

HH: I don't think they would be controlled by American bishops, by which
you presumably mean Catholic ones. Perhaps you mean NAB. If you want to
read about the NASB translators, you can see a list of them above or here:

http://www.bible-researcher.com/nasb.html

Yours,
Harold Holmyard


JW:
The correction has been made by the corrector, the honorable Harold
Holmyard. In the late Raymond Brown, the Catholic Priest's, classic, The
Birth of the
Messiah, on Page 146 the eminent scholar has the note:

"37 The RSV was burned by fundamentalists in some parts of the United States
because it used "young woman" rather than "virgin" in Isa 7:14-a sign to the
book burners that the translators were denying the virginal conception of
Jesus! The reading "virgin" was imposed by a decision of the American bishops
on
the reluctant Catholic translators of the NAB."

I have Faith that no one here thinks the error intentional on my part just
to publicize the above as prophecy, of course, is impossible for me.



Joseph Wallack





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