God and the N-word

[Frances Bolton (PHI)]

You are indeed thinking of Gore Vidal's review of the Thern book. I don't
have the review in front of me, but Vidal was talking about the problems
encountered when translating the Talmud in the late nineteenth/early
twentieth century. The translators did not want to use the racial epiphet
(sp?) in the text, I think they substituted the word "kushite."

Yours, 
Frances Bolton

On Sat, 16 May 1998, William S. Lear wrote:


> I vaguely remember somewhere reading about the bowdlerizing of (what
> to us today would be) the word "n-word" in the King James version of
> the Bible, converting it to some obscure word instead.  I can't
> remember where I read it --- was it the recent Gore Vidal review of
> the Thurnstrom's?  Was it in Counterpunch??  Where oh where did I see
> this?
> 
> Does anyone know where this might have appeared, or know anything
> about what I'm talking about?
> 
> 
> Bill
>