Word: immanuel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Immanuel Velikovsky, scientist and author of World's in Collision will deliver a speech tonight at 8 p.m. entitled "My Star Witnesses." The speech, sponsored by the society of Harvard Engineers and Scientist will be in Lowell Lecture Hall and Admission is free...
...quarrel with the N.E.B. rendering of Isaiah 7: 14, which in the King James Version ("a virgin shall conceive") had clearly prefigured the Virgin birth of Christ. Now, the meaning is more ambiguous: "A young woman is with child, and she will bear a son, and will call him Immanuel." But the R.S.V. helped pave the way for such a change two decades ago by translating the Hebrew almah as "young woman" (elsewhere in the Bible it is used to describe young women who are clearly not virgins). Even the Jerusalem Bible, a Roman Catholic project, uses "maiden...