Yesterday, Dan Gilgoff reported on a new initiative to translate the Bible into the language of American political Conservatism, “free market parables” and all. Writes Gilgoff:
There’s a verse in the Gospel of Mark in which Jesus enters a synagogue on the Sabbath and finds a man with a withered hand. “And they watched him,” according to the King James version of the Bible, referring to those in the temple, “whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.”
But a new—and still evolving—conservative translation of the Bible prefers a more populist, Glenn Beckish take: “The intellectuals watched Jesus to see if he might catch and accuse him of healing on the Sabbath.”
Continue reading at God & Country.