Rakhel
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I just saw this on TV. really don't have time to comment on it myself, as I have to leave.
What do you think?
What do you think?
Section: Local Articles - Seattle News - MyNorthwest.comU.S. Bishops changing Mary's Virgin Status in the Bible
By LISA BROOKS
Every so often, the guys that update the Bible make some changes that raise eyebrows. It's happening now, with the updated edition of the New American Bible.
American Catholic Bishops decided to change a key passage in the book of Isaiah that calls the mother of the coming messiah, not a 'virgin,' but instead a 'young woman.'
So was she or wasn't she? Or was Mary just "technically" a virgin? Why did they do this?
"Their point in translating this reference to Mary as a 'young woman' rather than a 'virgin' is that the original Greek word doesn't mean what we in contemporary English mean by a 'virgin.' It simply means a young woman," John Allen, with the National Catholic Reporter in Rome, told CBS Radio.