"I have read in the Bible of Unicorns. People have said to me that it shows that the KJV is faulty. Can you explain to me what those were?"
Most of the commentators wave the magic wand and transform the unicorn into a wild ox. This, of course, is done through unbelief. They don’t believe that there is such an animal as a unicorn.
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Karl has been reading "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" again.
It's disbelief when you state "They don't believe..."
It's unbelief if you state "Unicorns do not exist."
What did you read in "the Bible of Unicorns"? I, for one, think a Unicorn Bible is pretty cool. Can't be more insane than the KJV, can it?
Silly me, I thought "re'em" was the actual world for "wild ox."
@ werewolf--IIRC, the passage with "re'em" translated to "unicorn" is in Job, near the stuff about Leviathan and the horse saying "Ha, ha" and other coolness.
The KJB translators didn't know what a "re'em" is, and admitted it. At one point, they translated it as "unicorn", but left a marginal note "Or, rhinocerots". We still don't what a re'em is. The Jewish scholars who created the Greek OT translation known as the "Septuagint" translated it as "monokeros" (one-horned). We don't know why. The KJB translators just copied the Septuagint, using a word from common mythology.
The translation as "wild ox" is based mainly on similar words in other ancient Semitic languages such as Akkhadian which refer to the now-extinct wild ox. The wild ox was certainly dangerous and untamable enough to qualify for the biblical description. The word is now translated as "wild ox" in modern Hebrew.
The KJB translators themselves admitted there might be nitpicking errors of no religious substance in their work. It's only KJB nuts, mainly Americans, who have elevated the KJB to infallible scripture.
@: Darth Furious
You need Matthew 27 for the zombies:
27:52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
Has anyone found even a fossil? Or how about unicorn shit? Does it have mystical properties?
Or, is everything unicornic invisible?
The unicorn from the Bible is probably a deformed goat.
And as I was considering, behold, a he-goat came from the west over the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
well I'm stumped, I thought that the unicorns had just migrated to fairy land to have all the pretty green roses they could stumick for the rest of eternity. but apparently they didn't move afterall. still I wonder where all there dung has gone, and what they eat now.
Well, let's see. You've got your green alligators, and some long neck geese... there's some humpy-backed camels, coupla chimpanzees... cats... rats... elephants... But I just don't see no unicorn. Sorry.
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