The Corny Bible
Can anyone help me out here with a rational explanation?
You’d expect the Bible (King James Version - KJV) to be full of references to grain, cereal, wheat, and related, but NOT “corn fields” since corn (maize) was unique to the New World and not introduced into the Old World until after 1492. However, check out Mark 2: 23; Luke 6: 1 which also has the phrase “ears of corn” as does Genesis 41: 5; Leviticus 2: 14; Ruth 2: 2; 2 Kings 4: 42; Job 24: 24 and Matthew 12: 1. While not all Biblical translations use “corn fields” and “ears of corn”, that reference isn’t confined to just the KJV. But “corn fields” and “ears of corn" or just plain “corn” just has to be wrong.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.The whole problem with your argument is the word "corn." The etymology of the word is Old World. The word was applied to what the European invaders found already here.
sewchick57
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Oct 23, 2018
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WilliamFleming
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Oct 23, 2018
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Cornfields are what we call wheat fields. We call maize, maize - corn on the cob is a very recent food in real terms and most Brits wouldn't know what it looked like if they were stood next to a field of it.
@Uncorrugated Here’s some Indian Corn I grew. It’s “Indian” because it is derived from original native corn.
To us “corn on the cob” is just a way of serving any kind of whole ears of green corn. We pick it up and bite it right off the cob. Gets messy.
@WilliamFleming As a child apart from 'Jolly Green Giant' tins of sweetcorn, corn on or off the cob was a rarity. It's far more common these days, but most of the stuff grown here in the UK goes for animal feed.
Most of the UK is pretty ignorant about where their food comes from or what it looks like whilst growing.
Also because corn was not "discovered" until after 1492 that means that all references to it were written after 1492. But the bible was supposedly written well before that!!! Hmm.
starwatcher-al
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Oct 23, 2018
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Hmm,... somebody fucked up on that little detail, huh?
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