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James McGrath on the Conservative Bible Project

Byhenry December 7, 2009

… in the Christian Science Monitor, no less. (HT: Exploring Our Matrix.)

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A KJV-Only Comment on my Video
Byhenry January 31, 2009
For a video that includes nothing but me talking and some amateur (by me) captions, my Why I Hate the KJV video has done well on YouTube. With 3563 viewings as of the time I’m posting this, and 231 comments. I must confess that I have not paid much attention to the comments thread, because…
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Italics in The Voice – The Story of Bathseba
Byhenry July 23, 2012
Last week I mentioned that while I found the italics in The Voice more logical than I usually do in the formal equivalent translations that use the device (e.g. KJV, NKJV, NASB), I still found them annoying in the text. One goal of a dynamic equivalence translation is generally readability, and for me the italics…
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Notes on Terms and Language Teaching
Byhenry February 24, 2018
Dave Black comments some on linguistics and teaching biblical languages in a post today. (Check out the linguistics conference coming up!) The difficulty is the difference between teaching someone a language in a classroom and in discussing and describing that language in some detail as a linguist would want to do. Both the framework and…
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1 Chronicles 1-9 in the Cornerstone Biblical Commentary
Byhenry October 31, 2010
I previously gave an overview of the Cornerstone Biblical Commentary on 1-2 Chronicles, but I’ve been spending more time with it since, reading the Hebrew text along with the commentary. While I do appreciate the NLT text on which the commentary is based, I’m not reading this for the NLT text, but rather for the…
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NLT has a Blog
Byhenry July 8, 2008
Wayne Leman at Better Bibles Blog notes that there is now a blog for the NLT. I note with pleasure that the first post deals in a very balanced way with the widespread belief that dynamic equivalence translation is the same thing as paraphrasing. (One should note that in this case “paraphrasing” is not used…
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Translating Poetry
Byhenry March 30, 2016
On March 24, 2016, blog entry marked 11:40 AM, Dave Black talks about translating poetry and links to his essay on the topic from a Festschrift, available via Google Docs. Reading Dave’s comments about translating poetry reminded me of one of my favorite translations of poetry from any language to any other, Max Knight’s translations…
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