From: livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey)
Subject: Re: A Little Too Satanic
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In article <66486@mimsy.umd.edu>, mangoe@cs.umd.edu (Charley Wingate) writes:
|> Jeff West writes:
|> 
|> >You claimed that people that took the time to translate the bible would
|> >also take the time to get it right.  But here in less than a couple
|> >generations you've been given ample proof (agreed to by yourself above)
|> >that the "new" versions "tends to be out of step with other modern
|> >translations."
|> 
|> What I said was that people took time to *copy* *the* *text* correctly.
|> Translations present completely different issues.

So why do I read in the papers that the Qumram texts had "different
versions" of some OT texts.   Did I misunderstand?

jon.