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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4715112, member: 110504"]...Circling back to the "Caesar" issue, there are similar anachronisms in both the Old and New Testaments, where the title is used as if it was the name. In Exodus, the construct traditionally gets translated "Pharaoh King of Egypt" (even though the ensuing Hebrew kingdoms had interaction with later pharoahs at least as late as the 25th Dynasty). In the book of Acts, the apostle Philip runs into an official of "Candace Queen of Ethiopia." Here the anachronism is doubled; "Candace" is the title, 'Queen,' and the kingdom in question is Meroe, in modern Sudan.</p><p>...In that instance, "Ethiopia" comes directly from the Greek, and it was in fact the original term for the ancient Sudan. In these other contexts, how much this sort of thing has to do with the original texts, and how much with translation (conspicuously as of the early 17th century), I could only speculate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4715112, member: 110504"]...Circling back to the "Caesar" issue, there are similar anachronisms in both the Old and New Testaments, where the title is used as if it was the name. In Exodus, the construct traditionally gets translated "Pharaoh King of Egypt" (even though the ensuing Hebrew kingdoms had interaction with later pharoahs at least as late as the 25th Dynasty). In the book of Acts, the apostle Philip runs into an official of "Candace Queen of Ethiopia." Here the anachronism is doubled; "Candace" is the title, 'Queen,' and the kingdom in question is Meroe, in modern Sudan. ...In that instance, "Ethiopia" comes directly from the Greek, and it was in fact the original term for the ancient Sudan. In these other contexts, how much this sort of thing has to do with the original texts, and how much with translation (conspicuously as of the early 17th century), I could only speculate.[/QUOTE]
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