Dr Mary Cunningham - 1. The All-Holy Virgin Mary’s life in texts and images

The All-Holy Virgin Mary’s life in texts and images: The Biblical basis for her role as the ‘Living Temple of God’
Dr Mary Cunningham
Luton, 25th January 2015

[@neilhasid3407]

Dr.Cunningham is marvelous. Doesn't it say in the Old Testament that the savior would be born of a " young woman" (alma), and not a "virgin" ?

[@bonniejohnstone]

Neil Hasid modern Hebrew has tried to tamp down messianic references. The Septuagint (Greek) was used at the time of Christ (finding the Dead Sea Scrolls proved that Hebrew wasn’t the translation of the day!) In Isaiah 7, the almah is already pregnant, and modern Jewish translators have therefore rendered almah here as "young woman". The Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Bible, which was completed in the late 2nd century BCE, translated almah into Greek as παρθένος (parthenos), which generally means "virgin".