Writer In Old Testament Coming Up With Dodgy Translation Of Line About King Crossword Clue

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	noun • British philologist and writer of fantasies (born in South Africa) (1892-1973)
	52%	14		Worked on the translation of the New Testament and parts of the Old Testament
	noun • English translator and Protestant martyr; his translation of the Bible into English (which later formed the basis for the King James Version) aroused ecclesiastical opposition; he left England in 1524 and was burned at the stake in Antwerp as a heretic (1494-1536)
	40%	10		Old Testament translation in Greek
	noun • the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament; said to have been translated from the Hebrew by Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II

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