ESV vs KJV (Better Bibles Blog)

Byhenry March 9, 2007

Those following the ESV/KJV debate might be interested in this post by Suzanne McCarthy, explaining why she prefers the KJV as her literal translation. I don’t find the language of the KJV nearly as attractive as she does, but that’s a matter of taste in my view.

I always love to find the occasional comments by “anonymous”–clearly the same “anonymous” every time on Better Bibles–who has a love affair with pretending that subjective factors are actually objective beauty. Weird that . . .

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Hebrews 1:1-4: Translation Issues

Byhenry April 8, 2006

In some passages, I may divide discussing translation issues into one section on how a passage is rendered into English, and another on the textual issues, but this passage has only one textual issue of any consequence. Textual Issues In verse three we have the following general options: “when He had by Himself purged our…

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Word Study Reprise

Byhenry August 6, 2009

It’s very easy to go astray with word studies when one doesn’t know the languages in question. Since I had a recent request for this material, I want to provide the links to my previous series (from early 2007) on word studies, dangers, and methods. Word Study Dangers: Overview Word Study Dangers: The Process Word…

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Carrying the TNIV

Byhenry April 9, 2007

I started carrying the TNIV recently. I had been using it only in electronic form to do some studying and comparison, but I decided to see how it would work as a “carrying” Bible. That means I take it to church, Sunday School, study groups, and I keep it at hand during my study time…

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Response to Misquoting Jesus VI

Byhenry April 20, 2007

. . . in which, quite logically, I discuss chapter 5. 🙂 In Chapter 5, originals that matter, Ehrman first introduces the basics of textual criticism and tells us how textual decisions are made. This good overview, as he notes, will not prepare you to make textual decisions for yourself, but it will let you…

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Does KJV-Only Honor the KJV?

Byhenry July 20, 2006

One frequent accusation I hear because I prefer modern translations over the KJV for most purposes is that I hate the KJV. Presumably, the people who say such things think that they honor the KJV by means of their doctrine. Nothing could be further from the truth. I believe that the KJV was probably the…

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Why is This Translation Important?

Byhenry January 8, 2011

Because obviously the most important thing about being a man is the way you use the bathroom. Potty training issues, maybe? (This is the second time there’s been a video of this guy preaching this. I blogged about it earlier here. Hat tip for this round: Abnormal Interests).

2 Comments

Ruchamah says:

March 12, 2007 at 1:12 pm

Do you know where the ESV translators got the little Paragraph markers? There is no notation, yet there are 9 paragraph markers in Gen 1 alone. I see no info in the introduction. Any thoughts?
thanks,
Ruchamah
Shabbir Ahmed says:

September 6, 2007 at 3:55 am

Dear
Respected Sirs,
I Shabbir Ahmed a 27 years old youth always nurture a dream to have a KJV Bible that I can not afford to buy because of my financial insolvency.
So please send me a KJV Bible to the bellow address if possible.

With reagards

SHABBIR AHMED
HOUSE-12/A,ROAD-63
GULSHAN-2
DHAKA-1212
BANGLADESH

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