Bible Versions and History

Advent season verses with a Tyndale flavor

feeds@yuku.com (Decalogue) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:55:55 GMT

... And Mary sayde. My soule magnifieth the lorde. And my sprete reioyeth in god my savioure, For he hath loked on the povre degre off his handemayden. Beholde nowe from hensforth shall all generations call me blessed. For he that is myghty hath done to me greate things, and blessed ys his name: And hys mercy is always on them that feare him thorowoute all generacions.

The Gospell off Sancte Luke The fyrst Chapter

{ Many thanks to gconan ! }

Conservative Bible Group gets major publicity

feeds@yuku.com (Wes Cottonhort) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:28:19 GMT

Well, MSN decided to give these nutjobs some publicity; most likely to make conservatives look like total idiots.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34270487/ns/us_news-faith/?GT1=43001

St. John's Bible

feeds@yuku.com (Scott McClare) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:47:29 GMT

Anyone seen this site before?

http://ww.saintjohnsbible.org/

I came across it looking for scans of old English manuscript and early print Bibles and found the project intriguing.

KJB Translators

feeds@yuku.com (AKCpluto) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:25:01 GMT

Hello everyone,

This is my first post here. Nice place.

May I ask - what are the main criticisms against the KJB translators that exist? That is, if I were to argue against using the KJB, how would I attack the translators?

Is there any documentation on the KJB translators having a doctrinal or ecclesiastical bias? What about immorality? What about drunkenness and various other "quaint" secrets?

Thank you in advance for helping me.

...

Is Thayer getting a bum rap?

feeds@yuku.com (Euthymius) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:35:54 GMT

Despite the usual comments (which I admit that I also had long accepted) that say Joseph Henry Thayer (of Lexicon fame) was a Unitarian, e.g., Riplinger, HazMat, passim, and also p. 715:

"Thayer denied the blood atonement, the Virgin birth, the deity of Christ, the Trinity, salvation by grace through faith, the sinfulness of man, and the infallibility of the scriptures."

A diligent...

A rare find, a 1589 Geneva!!

feeds@yuku.com (BrianT) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:51:58 GMT

Several weeks ago, I stumbled across an old classified ad for a old Bible. I contacted the seller to see if he still had it and for more info. He still had it, and he said he didn't know much about it but he found one page in it that said "1588". Excited but a bit skeptical, I arranged to see it, and it was a genuine 1589 edition Geneva! (The date of 1588 in on a "Book of Psalms in Metre" included in the back). It's NOT a reprint, it's the real thing. It's...

Did Tyndale translate Jehoshua's name as Joshua in his Pentateuch?

feeds@yuku.com (Exodus Six Verse Three) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:03:18 GMT

Did Tyndale translate Jehoshua's name as Joshua in his Pentateuch?

In Number's 13:16 in the KJB we read:

And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.

Moses changes the son of Nun's name from Oshea to Jehoshua

In I Chronicles 7:27 a slight change occurs in the Hebrew and the KJB reads:

Non his son, Jehoshua his son.

The...

The part of Rheims in the making of the English Bible

feeds@yuku.com (gconan) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:58:17 GMT

The part of Rheims in the making of the English Bible

By James George Carleton

'The Voice' NT

feeds@yuku.com (BrianT) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:03:11 GMT

Thomas Nelson Publishing and the Ecclesia Bible Society have a new NT out. You can download the Gospel of John at http://www.hearthevoice.com/pdf/Book_of_John.pdf

It is quite loose and neither "translation" nor "paraphrase" seem like the right term for it. I'm not sure what I think of it. Here's a small sample:

John 1:1 "Before time itself was measured, the Voice...

1530

feeds@yuku.com (gconan) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:20:42 GMT

PENTATEUCH, 1530.

From the Bible Research by Michael Marlowe

Below is the preface to Tyndale's translation of the Pentateuch, printed in 1530. The text is taken from Appendix B of Dewey Beegle's God's Word into English (Eerdmans: Grand Rapids, 1964). I have modernized the...

Subjective - what IYO makes a translation good?

feeds@yuku.com (mko) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:46:53 GMT

This is subjective and prone to strong debate, but I just wanted to ask the question, since different people have different preferences. I tend to prefer a literate, literal-but-not-to-a-fault style (like the RSV or the NRSV, but without the gender-mending tendencies of the latter, and without the thees and thous of the former). How about you people?

- I'm not gonna flame people for disagreeing with my preferences. I'm not a KJVO...anymore :P

Amplified Bible

feeds@yuku.com (ScottW) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:57:42 GMT

I listen to a particular pastor on the internet who uses the Amplified alot. What are your opinions on that translation? I looked up some scripture and it seemed pretty solid, at a glance. I would assume it wouldn't be ideal at all for memorization due to all the inserts/bracketing, but would be ok for study. Is that right or wrong?

A Version For Every Denomination?

feeds@yuku.com (Ben44) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:25:10 GMT

I wonder if we are getting to the point that there will be a Bible version chosen for every denomination and brand of Christianity?
The Southern Baptists now have The Holman Christian Standard Version. And Now I hear the Methodists are doing a translation for their church:
http://www.wesleyreport.c...ommon-english-bible.html
What are your thoughts about every...

'Let There Be Light'

feeds@yuku.com (gconan) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:48:51 GMT

'Let There Be Light'

Exhibition Spotlights William Tyndale, English Martyr

By GAIL FINEBERG

A small but intriguing exhibition at the Library tells a story of a 16th century scholar, linguist and priest who died a martyr. The story is one of political...

Best General Purpose Bible?

feeds@yuku.com (Ben44) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:43:25 GMT

What do you think is the best general purpose Bible? Which version would 'fit' your average reader, and be comprehensible to most people as well as being accurate and reliable?

To be more specific, which Bible would you recommend to your teenage son or daughter, your co-worker, your neighbor?

Ben

New NIV?

feeds@yuku.com (Ben44) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:30:41 GMT

So who thinks the new NIV will look just like the old TNIV?

Can these guys ever keep their word? What happened to: The NIV is now a fixed translation and will remain unchanged.

Ben

Gutenberg Bible

feeds@yuku.com (Tatermonkey) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:27:04 GMT

For some odd reason I've took an interest in getting my hands on a digital copy of the Gutenberg Bible (Latin). I have several copies of the Vulgate itself but I want to get the Gutenberg . There are quite a few sites offering a page by page view online, but I want to find a single down loadable pdf or zip file.

Any help would be much appreciated

Folks caught up with this?

feeds@yuku.com (kiwiray) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:34:47 GMT

Conservative Bible Project

quotes from the discussion of the same:

explaining the numerous economic parables with their full free-market meaning.

dealing with liberal or random dilution of the meaning of biblical terms, like the term "word" in the first verse of the Gospel of John

The earliest, most authentic manuscripts lack this verse set forth at Luke 23:34:[5]
Jesus...

Luke 24:42

feeds@yuku.com (Armchair Scholar) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:00:49 GMT

In the KJV vs. 42 mentions both broiled fish and a honeycomb. NASB, etc. don't have "and some honeycomb." Is this just because the honeycomb appears in the TR? Any theories on how it got in there? It doesn't appear to change doctrine either way and was just food offered to the Lord for Him to eat in His glorified body. Does the honey or honecomb have any significance?

Isaiah 7:14 in the 1599 Geneva

feeds@yuku.com (Wes Cottonhort) — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:44:50 GMT

Okay, here's my question. I was reading my Geneva and noticed in Isaiah 7:14 that the passage reads "the virgin will conceive" as opposed to "a virgin shall conceive."

Since my knowledge of Hebrew is quite limited to say the least, I was wondering, does the Hebrew structure of this passage lead the translation to use one article over the other, or is this simply a case of the Geneva...