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One of the comical moments in the early history of printing occurred in 1631, when the English printer Robert Barker produced an
One of the comical moments in the early history of printing occurred in 1631, when the English printer Robert Barker produced an
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One of the comical moments in the early history of printing occurred in 1631, when the English printer Robert Barker produced an edition of the scriptures which became known as the "Wicked Bible". This edition contained a misprint of the seventh commandment. One thousand copies were printed and ready for publication before someone noticed that the commandment had been changed to "Thou shall commit adultery". Nothing much came of it. The printer was fined, the copies destroyed and the moral fiber of the nation remained intact.
But what happens when the verse at issue is not merely a printer’s error but an ancient interpolation into an even more ancient text? Such was the case with 1 John 5:7, the biblical proof-text for the doctrine of the Trinity. Erasmus, Sir Isaac Newton and John Locke, among others, challenged the text’s authenticity. When Erasmus left the verse out of the first edition of his monumental Greek New Testament (1516), he was roundly criticized for encouraging heresies, schisms and conflicts. Erasmus’s critics knew that approaching the Bible in a scholarly fashion was dangerous: even the most pious attempts at rational understanding of scripture could result in skepticism or atheism. How can one appraise the Bible critically and still maintain its authority?
In his engaging and very thorough book, David Katz explores the ways this question was addressed in England from the Reformation onward. A professor at Tel Aviv University, Katz is the author of The Jews in the History of England, 1485-1850 and a host of books and articles on early- modem skepticism and religion. In God’s Last Words, Katz maintains that every era responds to the Bible differently based on shifting cultural assumptions, and he examines the "lens through which the Bible was read" in various historical moments. While Reformation leaders accepted the transparency of the Bible’s message, by the late 17th century, this view could no longer be maintained, Katz states. During the 18th century the Bible came to be regarded as just another literary text—one which increasingly had to conform to contemporary standards of realism. As Darwin’s theories became widely known, 19th-century readers applied an evolutionary model to the Bible and began m see it as the product of a primitive mentality very different from their own. These new ways of reading the Bible seemed to destroy its authority completely until the fundamentalist movement reasserted the old Protestant belief in the Bible’s sole authority.
选项
A、Because it contained a mistake.
B、Because it allowed people to commit adultery.
C、Because the original content of Bible was changed a lot in this edition.
D、Because a misprint of this edition affected the original meaning.
答案
D
解析
事实细节题。文中第一段就是关于这个圣经版本的,因为第七条戒律的印刷出现了错误,原句被改为"你们应该通奸",与其本意以及圣经所提倡的道德正好相反,因此被称作"不道德的圣经"。只有答案选项说明了真正的原因,是正确答案。
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考研英语一
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