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translations

The KJV superiority challenge

November 30, 2009

Thanks to Claude Mariottini for alerting me to this challenge. Read Claude’s own response on points of translational detail, picking up on some unfortunately chosen examples in the article.
While I have sympathy with Greenberg’s complaint about the numbers of tailored editions, I fear he is simply wrong to confuse the obfuscating obsolesence of some Tudor [...]

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A first look at the Common English Bible

November 5, 2009

The Common English Bible brings its first baby into public for the first time today, with the online publication of its version of St Matthew’s gospel. On the whole it seems to me to have some good colloquial writing in places, though I think it confines itself too much to a single specific reading age [...]

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If the King James Version was good enough for the apostles …

October 3, 2009

Forasmuch as there be those men which do uphold the magniloquence most blessed by the Holy Ghost in the translation of the sacred writings held to be received from generation unto generation from the time of the apostles by the company of divines gathered by His Most Gracious Majesty King James; be it now known [...]

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How can NIV be a bible for “the whole church”?

September 22, 2009

Peter Kirk offers a helpful analysis of the FAQ about the N2IV. As I remarked in the comments on Peter’s post, there seems to me to be an inescapable conflict between the answer to 21:

The Committee on Bible Translation has no plans at the present to produce a translation of the Apocrypha/Deuterocanonical books

and [...]

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Red-letter Bibles: continuing the attack on the incarnadine text

September 11, 2009

My original post, later picked up by Evangelical Textual Criticism blog (thanks Tommy!) is to be found here. A later discussion with Stephen Carlson (in which he plays the part of an heroic defence attorney ably trying to get an obviously guilty client off the hook) can be found here. I repeat my original points [...]

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New New International Version of the “words” of God?

September 1, 2009

Peter Kirk and Rick Mansfield are among those noting the next new NIV. Apparently at the moment they intend just to call it the NIV – won’t that get confusing, especially in citations?
I’m a bit confused about the bits in the press release that say:

he global board of Biblica today announced its intention to update [...]

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From Biblish to Babel: questioning John Hobbins’ ESV love

June 23, 2009

This started life as a comment on John Hobbins’ posts arguing that the ESV was a church translation and the NRSV an academy translation, but it was clearly going to grow too long and so I post it here instead. I do not dispute that in any translation, including these two, there will be some [...]

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When translations improve the Bible

June 10, 2009

John Hobbins revisits one of his hobby-horses (and one he shares with some others): the inadequacy of translations. He claims to “make three points, the truth of which is impossible to deny” and the first of these is: “All extant translations of the Bible fall short of the glory of the original”.
Presumably this is apart [...]

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