to be ignorant of any other sense for this word tešûqâh than the translation of “turning.” Furthermore, the Latin rendering was conversio and the Greek was apostrophē or epistrophē, words all meaning “a turning.” With such strong and universal testimony in favor of “turning,” how did the idea of desire ever intrude into the translator’s agenda? Again, it was Katherine C. Bushnell who did the pioneer research on this problem. She traced its genesis to an Italian Dominican monk named Pagnino who
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