usage ridicule

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/27/2012 04:02 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>On Mar 27, 2012, at 2:55 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
> > At 3/27/2012 10:30 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >> (And wasn't Esau "an hairy man" back in King James's day?)
> >
> > The variorum and possibly critical edition of the King James
> > accessible via biblegateway.com perhaps evidences a (an?) historical
> > evolution --
> >
> >   Genesis 27:11
> >      And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother
> > is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
> >
> >   2 Kings 1:8
> >      And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a
> > girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
> >
> > Joel
>
>I follow Alan Bennett's edition:
>http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/but-my-brother-esau-is-an-hairy-man/

Can we reconstruct the author's fair copy from these two variants?

Joel

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