Boro Nut

It occurred to me that today we have at our fingertips tools which our forebears (3 bears surely - Ed) could only dream of when tracing the linguistic history of the Christian canon.

Starting from the premise that the earliest available texts must by definition have been transcribed into other languages I wondered whether clues hadn't been left behind in word patterns and phraseology which would point to a specific chronology.

To this end I decided to put the bible to the Babel Fish test. My research indicates that it's only when you translate the original aramaic/hebrew first to Mandarin and then to English that you achieve anything like the gibberish of the current tome. Could this provide a previously undiscovered clue to the true origins of the ubiquitous hotel bedroom moth killer? Do we know for instance if any copy of the bible predates Marco Polo for instance? Could it simply be just cunning Chinese retribution for stealing silk worms or something?

Boro Nut

Susannah

I think we can be certain no English Bible predates Marco Polo.

Marco Polo (1254-1324)

The First English Bible, AD 1383

Hmmm... Suspiciously close in time; maybe you're right!