Dave Black on Translations

Byhenry January 22, 2011

I was thinking of quoting this comment from Dave Black myself, but Rod Decker beat me to it. We should give translators more respect!

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Interpreting the Bible III – The Impact of Inerrancy
Byhenry January 12, 2009
Update (1/15/09): For those in the habit of reading posts and skipping comments, I want to note that there is an important and substantial exchange of comments between Peter Kirk (Gentle Wisdom), Jeremy Pierce (Parableman), and myself that helps clarify this issue substantially. In my first post in this series, I made the following comment…
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MyBibleVersion.com Progress Update
Byhenry April 27, 2008
I haven’t posted about the changes to MyBibleVersion.com for some time, so I thought I’d let you all know I’m still working on it. I don’t expect to roll it out until my site is moved to a new, upgraded physical server which should happen any day now. It’s been “any day now” for a…
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A Bible and Book Burning
Byhenry October 28, 2013
Pastor Marc Grizzard of (oh the irony!) Amazing Grace Baptist Church (I’d link, but the web page at the only link I have is suspended) is planning a book burning. He believes the KJV is the only true Word of God for English speaking people, so he’s going to burn copies of all those “perversions.”…
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Mounce on Translating Every Word
Byhenry July 25, 2017
I used to use Bill Mounce’s introductory grammar in teaching Greek, and I appreciated his attention to linguistics, though I generally wanted more. (I’ve switched to Dave Black’s Learn to Read New Testament Greek for those rare occasions when I have the opportunity to teach Greek. I’m probably prejudiced as Dave is a friend and…
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Capitalization and Translation
Byhenry August 14, 2006
One of the categories on which I rate trnslations for my Bible Version Selection Tool is on capitalization of divine names. This has resulted many times in people asking me if I’m not being a bit nitpicky in making an issue of something like that. Wayne Leman has posted about Psalm 2 and his arguments…
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Tabulated Lists in Translation
Byhenry October 13, 2013
Elements of formatting and layout can have a significant impact on the use of a Bible translation and even the way in which it will be read and understood. Examples of formatting choices that may be very significant include paragraph divisions (not to mention the more historical, though unoriginal, chapter and verse divisions), section headings,…
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