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I’ve written a brief response to a particularly bad article about The Message over on my Participatory Bible Study Blog.
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Metzger Essay on the NRSV
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Find the link at Near Emmaus.
Michael Patton on Best Bible Version
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I like this presentation, though I list some quibbles on my Participatory Bible Study Blog. I would put this up against the line on my book cover: The best Bible version is one you read!
KJV-Only: The Exclusivity Argument
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One of the fundamental assumptions of my book, What’s in a Version? is that the Bible should and can be available in any language. Thus the initial chapter starts by asking just what questions onbe might ask if one was deciding how to produce a translation for people who don’t have one. Advocates of the…
Sermon on Bible Translations (History)
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John Brunt was one of my professors for my undergraduate program in Biblical Languages at Walla Walla University. He’s now a pastor. The embedded sermon is the beginning of a series. The reason I’m including this here is because he goes through some of the history of translation. Many errors regarding Bible translation result from…
Note on 1 Thessalonians 5:17
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… at my Participatory Bible Study Blog.
On Lucidity of the Writers and Clear Translation
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I’ve posted two items on my Participatory Bible Study blog, the first on clarity of translation, On Translating to be Understood, and the second on just how clearly we understand the Bible writers in the first place, Paul not Lucid.