凡泥：请教新民和PEIXING兄：创1：1不同的版本，如KJV 天为单数，NIV则为复数，到底可考查最早的文字是怎样说的？先谢了。

新民：As far as I know, it is in plural ?? In the Hebrew concept of Heavens, it has at least three strata. The first is the atmospheric heaven (sky), the second is the cosmic heaven, the third is the spiritual heaven where God makes his dwelling. Remember Paul said in 2Corinthians that he went into the third heaven and heard secret conversations.

译文：据我所知，应该是复数？？西伯来文中天的概念至少有三层。第一层是指大气层天空，第二层指宇宙天空，第三层，灵界的天空，那儿为神所造所居。记得保罗在歌林多后书中说：他进到了第三重天，听到了隐秘的对话。

852：基本是同意KJV版本翻译。

PEIXING：To 凡泥：汇报一下查书。

"The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible: teh oldest known Bible translated for the first time into English"

译文：死海古卷圣经：最古老的圣经翻译版本，首次成英文。

Translated and with Commentary by Martin Abegg Jr., Peter Flint & Eugene Ulrich. 1st Edition, ISBN 0-06-060064-0 (paper), published by HarperSanFrancisco.

由Martin Abegg Jr., Peter Flint & Eugene Ulrich翻译并作注释，第一版本，HarperSanFrancisco出版(ISBN 0-06-060064-0 (paper )

"The preserved text is presented in regular type, with nonextant text supplied in square brackets. If only part of a verse or word is preserved in one scroll and another part can be found in a different scroll, the editors have combined the fragments to supply as much of the surviving text as possible.

译文：所保存的文本以常规方式给出，文本丢失处以方括号表示。

For example, in one scroll (4QGen), we have only the following words preserved for Genesis 1:1: "In the beginning Go[] made [ ].". If this were our only manu???? containing this verse, The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible would read : "In the beginning Go[d] made [the heavens and the earth]," with the supplied text in square brackets.

例如， 在一卷中(4QGen)，创世记1：1仅存：“起初，Go[]创造[]”。如果这是唯一的这节经文，那么死海古卷圣经应该读为“起初，神创造天(复数)地”[]中是加进去的。

Fortunately, however, another scroll (4QGen) also contains part of this verse---"In the beginn[ ] God [ ] the heavens and the earth"---a fragment that includes material missing from 4QGen. So when the preserved letters from the two scrolls are combined, the translation is as follows: "In the beginning God made the heavens and the earth"."

译文：然而，幸运的是，在另一卷(4QGen)也包括这节经文：“起[]，神[]天[复数]地”(这段不完全的经文包含了前所失去的文字)。这样，结合这两卷经文，创1：1翻译如下：“起初，神创造天(复数)地。”

解构函数：创1：1中的天是单数还是复数，影响到人对整本圣经的理解，有时起到至关重要的作用。我想混沌人一定清楚，起初一个非常微小的偏差，会被无穷放大，虽然都会产生美，但是属於完全不同的美。如果创1：1中的天是单数，后面的1：2，3，4看为连续的过程比较合理；如果是复数，创1：1看为总纲比较合理。一管之见。