[ExI] Beowulf

[David Lubkin]

Keith wrote:

>It's really clear from context and history that the biblical 
>injunction not to kill didn't apply to war with out groups.

Footnote: The Old Testament has no such injunction. Translating 
Exodus 20:13 as "Thou shalt not kill" is incorrect; the word used in 
Hebrew is /tirtsakh/, meaning "to murder."

OTOH, the New Testament has Matthew 26:52, where Jesus purportedly 
says, "for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword." 
That may have been what you had in mind.

Further aside, it's interesting to see the mutations in religion due 
to translation errors. For instance, Isaiah 7:14 refers to /alma/ 
("young woman"), which got morphed into "virgin". (Thence, the Virgin Mary.)

Of course, interpretations of the Second Amendment hang on a comma.


-- David.