Scapegoating (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Scapegoating is the practice of singling out one child, employee, member of a group of peers, ethnic or religious group, or country for unmerited negative treatment or blame. Related concepts include frameup, whipping boy and fall guy. The word "scapegoat" is a mistranslation of the word Azazel. The Septuagint, an early Greek translation of the Old Testament, had incorrectly translated Azazel as ez ozel - literally, "the goat that departs" - and translated the word as tragos apopompaios, meaning "goat sent out." The error was further promulgated in the Latin Vulgate, which rendered the word as caper emissarius, or "emissary goat." William Tyndale rendered the Latin as "(e)scape goat" in his 1530 Bible. This translation was later appropriated in the King James Version of the Bible (Leviticus chapter 16) in 1611.