by Christian | Jan 10, 2022 | Bible Versions
An excerpt from George Steiner’s After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation (Oxford University Press, 1975, pp. 348-9) Whether the ‘antique rightness of the phrasing’ in the Authorized Version, as A. C. Partridge puts it, is due to deliberate...
by Christian | Oct 22, 2021 | Bible Studies, Bible Versions
Inserting a gap between the 69th week and the 70th week allows premillennialists of all types to conjure up an end-time antichrist, a rebuilt temple, and a covenant made and broken with Israel by the antichrist. Much of the support for this view hinges on the identity...
by Christian | Jul 17, 2021 | Bible Versions, Culture
It is an interesting irony that, at a time when so many Christians have abandoned the King James Bible, a prominent atheist should come forth to praise it. In celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of the King James Bible in 2011, the famed unbeliever...
by Christian | Oct 24, 2020 | Bible Versions
As excellent a translation as the King James Version was (and is), its editors never claimed to be infallibile. Their marginal notes indicate instances where they lacked absolute certainty over some readings. They acknowledged this in their preface: …it hath pleased...
by Christian | Jan 4, 2020 | Bible Versions, Reviews
A New Approach to Textual Criticism: An Introduction to the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method, by Tommy Wasserman and Peter J. Gurry. SBL Press & Deutsche Bibel Gesellschaft. Paperback, 146 pages, list price $19.95. Reviewed by Pastor Christian...
