June 23, 2011
Question: Rav Singer, Why did you say Christians mistranslate the scripture by saying “almah”doesn’t mean “virgin,” when their translation of virgin comes from the Septuagint’s “parthenos,” not the Hebrew “almah”? “Parthenos” does mean “virgin.” They didn’t mistranslate but used a different text. This is pretty well known, did you not know? I don’t think this is a very […]
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May 30, 2011
Question: Rav Singer,Why did you say Christians mistranslate the scripture by saying “almah”doesn’t mean “virgin,” when their translation of virgin comes from theSeptuagint’s “parthenos,” not the Hebrew “almah”? “Parthenos” does mean “virgin.” They didn’t mistranslate but used a different text. This is pretty well known, did you not know? I don’t think this is a very good […]
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