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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David Ker is at It Again!

Byhenry January 4, 2011

David Ker has started an interesting series. As usual, he’s doing something very different, and the result is some interesting posts. He uses a spreadsheet to randomly choose a chapter from the King James Version and then he writes a post about it. He has an announcement about the series, and I’d suggest his post…

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Helps and Keeping Up Your Greek

Byhenry May 9, 2011

Dave Black has another good paragraph on keeping up your Greek: I will not go into the mechanics of keeping up with your Greek this summer. For this, you can refer to my book Using New Testament Greek in Ministry, published by Baker Book House. Con Campbell and a host of other Greek teachers will…

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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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History of the Bible for 3rd Graders

Byhenry January 30, 2011

I was surprised to be invited to teach a session on the history of the Bible to the third grade class at my home church. So what does one do with about a half an hour to talk about the history of the Bible with about 20 lively 3rd graders? I chose to create some…

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Just What We Needed: The LOLCat Bible

Byhenry October 21, 2007

Prowlog 1 In teh land of Uz wuz a man calded Job. Teh man wuz goodz, afraid of teh Ceiling Cat and evilz.2 Teh man hadz seven sunz and tree doters,3 And lots of sheepz and camlez and rinoceruseses and servnts, srsly.4 His sunz tok turns mading cookies, and they all eated them.5 And Job…

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On Bible Translation from realmealministries.org

Byhenry December 28, 2006

From realmealministries.org comes a brief discussion of Bible translations and how to make your choice of one to use. There is some good material here, though obviously in such a short presentation it cannot be tremendously detailed. Since this is also a favored topic of my own (see Bible Version Selection Tool), I’d like to…