Bible Version Selection Tool XML

Byhenry March 22, 2008

I have made this tool’s information available through an RSS (like) feed. For information on how to use this feed, see my post on my computer services blog.

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Identifying Extremes – Examining Everything (An Example)
Byhenry January 21, 2016
This morning Dave Black posted some things about reading Hebrews from the Good News Bible (TEV) and also on authorship and canonicity. I’m not posting to enter into a debate on this point, but rather to note an attitude. Dave says: The undeniable reality is that questions of canon and authorship matter. Of course, both…
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Response to Misquoting Jesus – III
Byhenry April 15, 2007
I’m continuing my chapter by chapter response to Misquoting Jesus with a discussion of chapter 2, “The Copyists of the Early Christian Writers.” I continue to see this book as a basic introduction to New Testament Criticism (in agreement with Elgin Husbheck, Jr.), though the hype connected with it tries to make it sound more…
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The Potential Arrogance of Critiquing Bible Translations
Byhenry January 6, 2014
When I wrote yesterday about the HCSB introduction and its use of the label “optimal equivalence” I fully intended to write another post complaining about that introduction. And I will mention the other issue briefly in this post. But something else was drawn to my attention in the meantime. Let me lay a foundation. Some…
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Capitalization as a Translation Issue in the Hebrew Scriptures
Byhenry January 5, 2008April 26, 2025
In my ratings for the Bible Version Selection Tool, one of the areas on which I compare translations is capitalization of pronouns referring to God or to Jesus. The interesting thing about this is that the Hebrew text has no analog to capitalization of any kind, while edited Greek texts and some late manuscripts can…
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Valuable Summary Post on Bible Translation
Byhenry October 19, 2008
Brian Russell of Real Meal Ministries has posted a summary on Bible translation that is quite good. It’s hard to keep things straight in a short, readable essay. (HT: Methodist Blogs Weekly Roundup by Allan Bevere.) I would note that he uses the popular rather than any of the technical definitions of “paraphrase,” but I…
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NLT Review
Byhenry July 17, 2008
Via a comment I received a link to this review of the NLT2 which is quite useful, especially because it includes specific examples supporting the major points.
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