On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 04:49:50PM +0200, Wildemar Wildenburger wrote regarding Re: The Modernization of Emacs: terminology buffer and keybinding: > > Steve Holden wrote: > > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve > >> Holden wrote: > >> > >>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >>> > >>>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, George Neuner > >>>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> The Christian Bible says "In the beginning was the Word..." > >>>> Which is an English mistranslation from the Greek "logos". > >>> So, now you're telling me that the Garden of Eden was actually a > >>> *marketing campaign*? > >> > >> Different Bible book, different author, different original language. > > > > So Genesis was written in Hebrew? I have no clue as to where the > > manuscripts were found. > > > Am I missing a joke here? What are you talking about? > I'm trying to figure that out myself...
> Different book? From what book would the first sentence in the Bible be, > if not from the first book (yeah yeah, from the publisher, haw-haw :-|)? > Yeah, different book. "In the beginning was the Word" is John's cosmology. Written in Greek long after Genesis, and a couple decades after Jesus was executed. Also, I wouldn't so much say that "word" is a mistranslation. Logos does indeed mean "word" in common usage, it just also carries along the baggage of reason, "logic" (for a loose definintion of which), rationality, and so forth. So it's not so much inaccurate as inadequate. > And Genesis and all other of Moe's books where written in Hebrew. No > doubt about that. Its (part of) the /Hebrew/ Bible, after all. > <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah> > > I can't program with discussions like this going on ;) > /W For real. Not much python in this thread. And yet, here I am, sucked into posting to a thread that I've spent the past three or four days wishing would die.... Sigh. Cliff -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list