Yes, the Religion forum at Pravda is a wild and wooly place. I'm sure you could see my posts; I use the same avatar, although a different name. Anyway, I'm posting all over that forum, just to establish an identity; I even have a "blog" there. Please pray for a man named Harris; I sense that he might be ripe.

Have you read Ruckman's book on "The Mythological Septuagint?" It's heavy going, simply because, as in so many of his books, he gets sidetracked assailing the "scholarly class;" but it's fairly recent.

I agree that there shouldnot be two standards of accuracy or precision, and if Gipp (or anyone else) misstates something, I don't buy it.


But, as I said, people coming to these issues anew need to crawl before they can walk.

Gipp's value, and Ruckman's is largely in poking a hole in the hideously over-inflated reputation that the so-called LXX continues to enjoy among "scholars." With normal Christians, the issue rarely comes up in conversation.

The Johannine Comma isa different matter. It's attacked in the margin of nearly every bible, so people wonder about it. But I'm perfectly satisfied by Edward Hill's chapter on the subject in The King James Version Defended.

God bless you, brother!