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Example sentences for: mistranslation

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It remains unclear to me on whom Mr. Orbaum would pin the blame for what he calls “the original mistranslation.”
Matthew's gospel was certainly not influenced by an “original mistranslation” from the King James Bible!
The adoption of the term virgin was not a mistranslation: it was a judgment of the translators based on the texts which they had before them and the audience for which the translation was intended.
Milton Horowitz wrote about a mistranslation of a word in the Bible which was ostensibly responsible for Michelangelo's putting horns on his sculpture of Moses [XVI,2].
He fails to make explicit that the portion of Matthew he quotes (1:23) is not just an identical “mistranslation”: Matthew's use of the Greek parthenos is the KJV's authority for the choice of word.