You Shall Not Kill or You Shall Not Murder?: The Assault on a Biblical Text

by Wilma Ann Bailey

Book Overview

Nearly all English translations of the Bible during the last third of the twentieth century have changed the wording of the sixth commandment from kill to murder. The Hebrew word that appears in the commandment has a broader semantic range than murder. Wilma Ann Bailey discusses why the Protestant and Jewish traditions changed the wording and why the Roman Catholic tradition did not. She also examines the impact that the wording will have in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081465214X
• ISBN13: 9780814652145
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"