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Originally Posted by awareness
What I find ironic about the translation of the KJV is, Richard Thomson, translator of Genesis (Gen-Kings), sure did get inspired by the spirit, or rather spirits, as he was an alcoholic, that drank from morning all day long.
However, as I understand it, his alcoholism allowed him to do his translation work routinely, without adding biases. But maybe that's why there's so much drinking in the Bible ... you know, like alcoholic biases ... haha.
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He had a clear head in the morning to do the translation work:
At any rate, even if Thomson did drink, Paine tells us that “he arose in the morning with his head clear enough to go forward competently with the day’s work.”
http://www.febc.edu.sg/v15/article/d...manite_answers
Or no, he rather started drinking just before putting pen to paper on Gen 3:15, and stopped by Gen 3:18. The rest of Genesis is untainted by bias, only Gen 3:16, that's the only lemon.
But it raises a good point. Clearly it is the gender biases in Bushnell who only see the fact that the translators were male, and not that a particular translator may have been affected by alcohol or illness. One of possibly 100 different reasons why things are translated the way they are. And maybe the Chinese translators she observed were affected by opium, who knows?
But it's the narrative behind Bushnell's book which draws the crowd, that Satan was using men's bias to translate the bible. Remember, Bushnell believes Satan translated the bible, or a good part of it, 46 verses in fact. It was to her, Satan hitching a ride on the back of men's masculinity, salivating and giggling with sinister glee as they translated "teshuqa" from "turning" to "desire", when it may just have been alcoholic men on a bender (not that I believe that to be the case or anything).
By the way, my reference to Satan's giggling is taken from Bushnell:
"Satan could not cause that Judaizing teaching to succeed in Paul's day, but now he giggles as he has blinded ministers to try and silence God's ministry
through the female sex of the body of Christ by changing God's truth into a lie"