How woud an attack work? Spiral text as Rev. 6:14.

[MichelleL11]

If this German version really references a codex book instead of a scroll, it can probably be a excluded a priori right?

I have this question into an expert at translations . . . 

I'll be back once I hear.

Hi, Koen:

I heard back from my expert and he was actually rather reticent about the issue.  I think it could be related to how difficult it is to take a position without diving in pretty deep and he is definitely time resource limited right now, having just started a new job.

That being said, certainly the general logic of a primary goal of the vernacular Bible being to reach "the masses" could support the possible swapping in of more "familiar" images, such as perhaps switching books for scrolls.

Balancing this consideration would be the thought that a society having laboriously copied the Vulgate as exactly as possible for so long, would the psychology of fiddling with the text really be there even with translation into the vernacular?  Certainly something like the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. would be totally foreign at that time -- but I am admittedly speculating here.

So, I don't think it is illogical to eliminate those vernaculars that seem to be not related to the underlying image you're hypothesizing the text is "matching"  - but I can't eliminate the general premise that the term "book" in Middle English (Wycliffe) or "bůch" (Mentelin) or "buche" (Augsburg) or Brieff (Luther) wouldn't also mean "scroll" to someone at that time in the context (e.g. maybe also having prior exposure to the verse in Latin(?)) or in the context of the verbs in the sentences.

Sorry to not have a more definitive bit of advice.

Michelle