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The Illuminated Gospel of St John

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92 points ycombinete | 1 comments | 19 Apr 25 02:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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jfengel ◴[23 Apr 25 01:30 UTC] No.43767894[source]▶
That is indeed stunning. John is the most poetic of the Gospels. The King James translation isn't especially accurate, but it's powerful. It deserves a good illuminated edition.

I'd love a set of annotations of the inspirations for each illumination. Medieval illuminations are heavily coded and full of allusions that would go over my head.

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patwolf ◴[23 Apr 25 02:53 UTC] No.43768252[source]▶
I had heard KJV had some translation issues, but I'm surprised to hear that about John. I tried to learn Koine Greek, and a lot of the lessons started with John 1, so I always assumed it was one of the easier things to translate.
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1. jfengel ◴[23 Apr 25 03:51 UTC] No.43768473[source]▶
You could spend a whole semester just on John 1:1. The word "logos" is all over the place.