BIBLE MODERNISED.
Venture By American Professors. PHRASEOLOGY UP-TO-DATE. • i:.- ("rived 11 a m I NEW YORK. July 17. An A-nil venture in Biblical exe i> iiini-'UJiced bv the University of
:( hicago whii'h will shortly publish a ! new translation of the OKI Testament ; in a so-called conversational style. This is the work of four Canadian and | United States students, Professors Meek. of the Univer.-ity of Toronto; Gordon, of iMetiill Univer.-ity; Waterman, of the University of Michigan and Smith, of ;the University of Chicago. I The initial sentence in Genesis will I read: When Cod began to create the i heavens and earth, the earth being a ! desolate waste, with darkness covering the abyss anil the spirit of God hover- ■ ing i)i er the waters, then God said 'Let (there be light' and there was light and jUod saw that the light was good. | The templai ion by Eve and Adam's | declaration is trail.-laie l thus: The ] woman whom You set at my side, it was rhe who gave me the fruit from the I tree. So I ate it. j The song of Solomon is vastly changed and put in a modernised poetical style.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 167, 18 July 1927, Page 7
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