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Added section about Cyrenius and Quirinius.
===Purpose and themes===
===Quirinius or Cyrenius?===
At [[Luke 2:2]] the governor is named as Cyrenius in the Authorised Version (KJV) and as Quirinius in many modern translations.
There is no contradiction in the Bible text in ancient Greek. That certainly reads Κυρηνίου. That word has Strong's number 2958, which Strong transliterates as Kurēnios.
The German Luther Bible and, later, the KJV change Kurēnios into letters which existed in the Latin alphabet. Although that alphabet is similar to ours, it does not, for example, contain the letter K, so that was replaced by C. The ending -os is replaced by -us, which would be appropriate for a Roman man. Hence Cyrenius. In the German language, an obvious pronunciation of the word Cyrenius is Ku-rain-ius, which sounds similar to Kurēnios.
Modern versions use information from elsewhere that there was a Roman called P Sulpicius Quirinius. The translators or paraphrasers replace the word used by Luke by the word Quirinius. There is no Q in Greek, so the name Quirinius, written in Greek, would have to start with the Greek letter K.
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