Mark Silk: 'Review committees in Utah (and wherever else material is being removed from school libraries) could deal with problematic passages by replacing existing books with bowdlerized versions.'
In America, there’s the example of the learned and pious lexicographer Noah Webster, who in 1833 published a revised edition of the King James Version. Webster largely confined himself to making grammatical corrections and bringing the language up to date, not that he wasn’t concerned about the references to sexual and other bodily functions.
“Further, many words and phrases are so offensive, especially to females, as to create a reluctance in young persons to attend Bible classes and schools, in which they are required to read passages which cannot be repeated without a blush; and containing words which, on other occasions, a child could not utter without rebuke. The effect is, to divert the mind from the matter to the language of the scriptures, and thus, in a degree, frustrate the purpose of giving instruction.
“Purity of mind is a Christian virtue that ought to be carefully cherished; and purity of language is one of the guards which protect this virtue.” Webster did deal with some of the language he considered offensive, for example by substituting “made fruitful” for “opened the womb,” “lewd woman” for “whore,” and “males” for “him that pisseth against the wall.” But, in the end, the work of euphemization proved too much for him.
“It was my wish to make some further alterations in this particular; but difficulties occurred which I could not well remove,” he wrote, and concluded by citing 33 unaltered chapters and verses followed by “Etc.”
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