Re: Arkansas 10 commandments law suit filed

On 6/12/2025 12:41 AM, Bob Casanova wrote:

On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 19:53:19 -0500, the following appeared
in talk.origins, posted by RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>:
 

https://www.newwestrecord.ca/religion-news/families-file-suit-challenging-arkansas-law-that-requires-ten-commandments-be-posted-in-classrooms-10797734
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The plaintiffs are Jewish, Unitarian Universalists, or listed as
nonreligious.  The Jewish plaintiffs do not what their kids to have to
be forced to be exposed to the Christian translation of the 10 commandments.
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I'm curious; any take on how the "Christian translation"
differs from the original, i.e., the Hebrew text?

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I do not recall exactly.  In the Christian history course that I took in college over 40 years ago, I recall that the original 10 commandments were probably short in terms of number of words.  Apparently they were carved on two tablets whose fragments, supposedly, were carried around by the Israelites in the lost ark.  They were repeated several times in the Hebrew holy books, not always verbatim.  The Christian version comes from the Greek Septuagint, and Christians got a Greek interpretation of the 10 commandments.
Ron Okimoto