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...Anchor translators, who include seven Catholics, 15 Protestants and five Jews, are beyond dispute. Sweden's Bo Reicke, 50, who did The Epistles, was one of the first New Testament scholars to use the Dead Sea Scrolls in his research. The translator of Genesis, Ephraim Avigdor Speiser, 62, of the University of Pennsylvania, is one of the world's ranking Assyriologists and an editor of the recent Jewish Publication Society translation of the Torah...
...Anchor scholars have had to abandon some of the King James Version's most striking images, which often stemmed from misreadings of a corrupt text. Gone from Speiser's Genesis, for example, is Joseph's coat of many colors. "It's a wonderful technicolored effect," says Speiser. "But we had to put it in mothballs. In those days everybody wore a coat of many colors. Besides, the Hebrew clearly states that he wore an ornamented tunic...
This boon to mankind is another application of the omnipresent computer, developed by nongolfing Scientist Maximilian Richard Speiser from a system he had invented for tracking low-flying ballistic missiles. Speiser applied the system to golf balls...
...with the latest discoveries but willing to use them." Begun seven years ago, the Anchor Bible will probably not be completed until 1969, although the first four books are scheduled for publication next fall. Judging by the section now ready for the press, Genesis as translated by Dr. Ephraim Speiser of the University of Pennsylvania, the Anchor Bible will have a brisk, colloquial tone far removed from the ornate measures of the classic English versions. Sample comparative verses...
...minute Spokane bomb run began, the wind was at a steady 50 knots. Then, just before the bomb release, it shifted to the northeast and subsided to seven knots. The City of Merced intercom was filled with curses ("We all loused up our halos," said Pilot Speiser later). The hypothetical 1,000-lb. bomb landed less than half a mile from the target-a bad mission in SAC's strict accuracy book. But since the City of Merced had made better runs at Spokane on the two previous lights, the inferior third try, under the "best...