Russ,

You still didn't address the New Jersey/Boston discrepancy.

Andy
from NJ

At 09:19 AM 1/7/03 +1300, you wrote:
>> > > No Hebrew for sure in this...
>
>> >  9th book of Old Testament in Bible (unless you use a Douay version,
>> > when there is indeed no such name there) :-)
>
>> Russell
>> When u say 9th book of the old testament which book do u mean?
>> I have read the whole book in the Original Version and we have no Douay
>> version...:-)
>> u just cause a brain storm here..hehehehehe
>
>If the religious watchdogs will politely loook aside for just a moment I'll
>frame a reply which discusses Old Testament book names but doesn't discuss
>religion per se ... :-)
>
>I thought about getting more specific about use of the term "The Bible" but
>decided I should stop at that term. Book order is usually taken as (in
>English) Genesis.E.L.N.D.J.J.R.-1 Samuel-2Samuel- ... hence Mr Morse's name
>appears. In the Douay translation (official Roman Catholic version of last
>century) the books 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, become 1 to 4 Kings
>respectively. This makes good sense as Samuel (not Morse) dies at the end of
>1 Samuel and doesn't feature at all except for a walk on part in 2 Samuel so
>it always seemed a strange naming system.
>
>If one you usd the Douay version names I guess that would make my answer
>"King Morse" :-)
>Not an entirely innappropriate epithet.
>
>
>        Russell
>
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