15-06-2021, 06:58 PM
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Re: So many are wrong
Originally Posted by bakerman
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Seems odd to me that so many people are completely unable to stick with a thread not go wandering off in some totally unrelated topic. Is it that difficult to hold a specific thought in your head for longer than a minute or so ?As a reminder, the thread here happens to be corn, not just in the bible but in dozens of novels about ancient times.
I am currently re-reading River God, a story that takes place in ancient Egypt. The author, Wibur Smith makes a dozen or more references to corn growing in the fields or freshly ground corn flour.
Obviously, since corn was unknown in the Middle East/Europe until Columbus' time, that would be impossible.
People, let's try to keep our eye on the ball, shall we ? If we are engaged in a person to person conversation with a friend and our friend is talking about marriage problems and you suddenly start talking about auto mechanics, your friend would think you're nuts.
Or kick one in them!
Where corn is involved it all comes down to the word corn being generic for grains in general for millennia and the misnaming of maize as corn only since the nature of maize fitted the use of the word for grains in general.
15-06-2021, 07:17 PM
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Re: So many are wrong
Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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Where corn is involved it all comes down to the word corn being generic for grains in general for millennia and the misnaming of maize as corn only since the nature of maize fitted the use of the word for grains in general.
I don't really attach too much importance to a translation aimed at the generic concept rather than the specific details.
15-06-2021, 07:38 PM
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Yeah but the point is ... when the major bible translation was done half a millennium ago, wheat, barley, oats were called corn. Across the pond the corn word means something else, and they've been a bit slow to recognise their bastardisations are not bigger than the bible.
15-06-2021, 07:52 PM
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Re: So many are wrong
Originally Posted by d00d
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Yeah but the point is ... when the major bible translation was done half a millennium ago, wheat, barley, oats were called corn. Across the pond the corn word means something else, and they've been a bit slow to recognise their bastardisations are not bigger than the bible.
15-06-2021, 08:04 PM
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Re: So many are wrong
Originally Posted by bakerman
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Seems odd to me that so many people are completely unable to stick with a thread
Originally Posted by bakerman
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I am currently re-reading River God, a story that takes place in ancient Egypt. The author, Wibur Smith makes a dozen or more references to corn growing in the fields or freshly ground corn flour.
Obviously, since corn was unknown in the Middle East/Europe until Columbus' time, that would be impossible.
Originally Posted by bakerman
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your friend would think you're nuts.
I know for a fact that Bakerman ignores my posts, so, unless someone brings this to his attention, he will probably never see it. I for one, think that would be a tragedy.
15-06-2021, 08:19 PM
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Threads very rarely keep to the topic, and sometimes the deviation provides some very interesting and seldom known facts, as it did in this case with Dex's insertion. I found it fascinating Dex, thank you, and your explanation did not fall on deaf ears......
15-06-2021, 08:25 PM
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Re: So many are wrong
Originally Posted by OldGreyFox
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Threads very rarely keep to the topic, and sometimes the deviation provides some very interesting and seldom known facts, as it did in this case with Dex's insertion. I found it fascinating Dex, thank you,
15-06-2021, 08:30 PM
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Re: So many are wrong
Originally Posted by bakerman
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I'm not trying to be a wise guy, but is that really true ? All grains were generically referred to as corn ? Even as far back as in the days of the Romans ? Or is that merely the church attempting to cover up a gross error ?
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