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Excerpt from Suggested Emendations of Authorized English Version: Of the Old Testament The amendments here suggested are the result, not of a systematic revision of the English Version, which I have never attempted, but of comparisons made in the course of translating the Scriptures into the Armenian and Bulgarian languages. They are offered to the candid consideration of all who feel especial interest in the correction of the English Version, and specially of those providentially called to the work of translating the word of God into other tongues. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Elias Riggs, the son of Elias and Margaret (Congar) Hudson Riggs, was born on November 19, 1810 at New Providence, New Jersey, where his father was pastor of the Presbyterian church. He was a descendant of Edward Riggs who came to New England in 1633, settling in Roxbury, Massachussets.
Possessing remarkable linguistic ability, Elias was learning Greek at the age of nine and at thirteen he began the study of Hebrew. He prepared for college at his birthplace and at Amherst Academy. Entering Amherst College in 1825, he carried on simultaneously with the required courses private studies in Hebrew, Syriac, Chaldee (Aramaic), Arabic, and modern Greek. Graduating in 1829, he entered Andover Theological Seminary. He graduated from this institution in 1832.
In 1832 he published A Manual of the Chaldee Language; Containing a Chaldee Grammar, a Chrestomathy, a Vocabulary. Subsequent editions appeared in 1842 and 1856.
Soon afterward he set sail for Greece as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Until August 1834 he was associated with Jonas King at Athens and partly occupied with translating the Aramaic parts of the Bible into modern Greek. In 1834 he was sent to Argos, where he and his wife established a school for girls which flourished until governmental interference led to its abandonment four years later and Riggs's transfer to Smyrna. There he worked among the large Greek population until instructed in 1844 to turn his attention to the Armenians.
From 1845 to 1852 he was engaged on a translation of the Scriptures into modern Armenian, published in 1853. By-products of this work were his Brief Grammar of the Modern Armenian Language, as Spoken in Constantinople and Asia Minor and A Vocabulary of Words Used in Modern Armenian but not Found in the Ancient Armenian Lexicons, both published at Smyrna in 1847.
When the publishing activities of the American Board were transferred to Constantinople in 1853, Riggs removed to that city. There he translated into Armenian, books, tracts, and hymns, at the same time teaching in the Bebek Theological Seminary until 1856, when a complete breakdown necessitated two years' furlough in the United States.
During this period he was far from idle, however, supervising in New York the electrotyping of his Armenian Bible, and teaching in Union Theological Seminary. He declined the chair of Hebrew in that institution in favor of return to Turkey and the translation of the Scriptures into Bulgarian, a language which he had quietly acquired. This task he began in 1859 and the publication of the translation was completed in 1871.
The added burdens of teaching in the mission girls' school at Hass Key, of frequent preaching, and of editing vernacular magazines, brought on pulmonary trouble and he spent the winter of 1862-63 in Egypt, whence he returned by way of the mission stations in Anatolia. Already he had published Outline of a Grammar of the Turkish Language as Written in the Armenian Character (Constantinople, 1856), and in 1873 the American Bible Society appointed him to a committee working on a standard Turkish text of the Bible.
On this project he was occupied until 1878, when the work was published in both Arabic and Armenian characters. In 1884 he published a Bulgarian Bible dictionary. From 1885 to 1888 he lived at Aintab in Southern Anatolia, but returned to Constantinople to work on a commentary on the New Testament in the same language. These works were closely related to his English publications Suggested Emendations of the Authorized Version of the Old Testament, Suggested Modifications of the Revised Version of the New Testament, and Notes on Difficult Passages of the New Testament.
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Quiet and retiring though not taciturn, he was a scholar of vast learning and keen critical ability, one of the great pioneer missionaries.
On September 18, 1832, he married Martha Jane, daughter of Johnston Dalzel of Mendham, New Jersey. Of his eight children, four of whom survived him, three sons became ministers, and two sons and a daughter missionaries; ten grandchildren also became missionaries.
