Monthly Archives: May 2007

Why is it so hard to choose a Bible translation?

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: May 29, 2007
Joe Myzia has an interesting post about Bible translation philosophies on TNIV Truth, raising some great questions about how and why we each choose what type of Bible to use. I left a lengthy comment in his post, but wanted to explore the topic a little more here as well. First, a little bit of background: [...]
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This Lamp: The Modern Language Bible

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: May 21, 2007
Rick Mansfield has posted his comments on The Modern Language Bible: New Berkeley Edition on This Lamp. The MLB was an early (~1950) effort to use modern language as a translation principle and move away from the archaic KJV. It would be interesting to compare the MLB to the New English Bible, which was first [...]
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A brief evening at the bookstore…

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: May 21, 2007
I finally had a chance to get to the local Northwestern Christian bookstore and see some of the new Bibles that are out. I especially wanted to see the new printing of the NLTse Premium Slimline Reference Bible, which Rick Mansfield recently reviewed on This Lamp. I was a bit let down after reading his [...]
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Unfulfilled prophecy

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: May 21, 2007
John Hobbins (Ancient Hebrew Poetry) has written some thoughts on unfulfilled prophecy and Biblical literalism that I found interesting to read in light of my previous summary of preterist eschatology.
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Study bible list updated

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: May 21, 2007
Fyi, Larry has added a guest review of Writings of St. Paul, 2nd Edition (Meeks & Fitzgerald) on Rick Mansfield’s THIS LAMP blog. I’ve updated the list of Study Bible reviews in my previous post.
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