James 1:13 - off topic

Roe d.roe at t-online.de
Wed Jul 12 05:01:38 EDT 2000




Mike Sangrey schrieb:


> ... When the Bible was translated into
> English the translators changed the name of this book, from Jacob
> to James, in order to honor the King, King James.


Scandalous, Mike...  I like it!  (And it fits with my own perception of
his influence on that translation.)

If this is true, then we shouldn't find instances of earlier English
translations having a "James" rather than "Jacob" reading... (unless
they, being sympathetic to the Scots, had done this honor for James I of
Scotland -- born 1394, crowned 1424).

I have no such resources other than:

http://mdavies.for.ilstu.edu/polyglot/passage.htm

...which shows under "1300's" the following reading for Luke 9:28

"soþli it is don aftir þese wrdis almest eiÿte daÿes, & he toc petir & 
**Jamys**  & Jon, & he steÿede in to an hil þat he shulde preÿsen"

But I don't know which translation this is. For the "1000's" we see a
reading of:

"þa wæs geworden æfter þam wordum nean eahta dagas: þæt he nam petrum
and Iohannem. and  **Iacobum.**  and eode on anne munt: þæt he hyne
gebæde"

Perhaps Kevin W., or someone with access to the the Chadwyck-Healey
database could help... 
  http://collections.chadwyck.co.uk/

David

D.W. Roe
Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany



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