The greatest business story ever told.

AuthorAltschul, David
PositionLetter to the editor

Greg Beato states that Bible translators "appeared to undermine the doctrine of the virgin birth" by using "young woman" instead of "virgin" in Isaiah 7:14 ("The Greatest Business Story Ever Told"). Mr. Beato has it backward.

The 52 Anglican bishops who put together the King James Version were illiterate in Hebrew and Aramaic, and so used as their source text the Septuagint, a work written in the Koine dialect of Greek, a language that had one word that meant both "virgin" and "young woman." When the Greeks came upon the Hebrew word ha-almab ("the...

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