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The modern translations of Isaiah which are cited above are legitimate translations; the King James translation is also a legitimate translation of Isaiah 7, not a “mistranslation.”
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].
Jack Orbaum comments on the King James Version's “mistranslation” (Isaiah 7:14) of the Hebrew almah as `virgin' [XVII, 4].
I would make a plea that we all be a bit more careful in our use of the term “mistranslation.”
Now I feel compelled to respond to Jack Orbaum's interesting letter [EPISTOLAE, XVII, 4] about the “mistranslation” of the Hebrew word ` almah in Isaiah 7:14, which Mr. Orbaum says ought not be translated `virgin' but `young woman.