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“Adam and Eve hear the sound of the Lord going to and fro in the garden ‘as the Spirit of the day.’ This rendering is not so opaque as it my seem on a first reading.” - Word by Word
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A fragment with the oldest Syriac translation of the New Testament discovered
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“A researcher from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, with the help of ultraviolet photography, was able to discover a small manuscript fragment of a Syriac translation written in the 3rd century and copied in the 6th century.” - Arkeonews
Fragment of a 1,750-year-old New Testament translation discovered
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“Grigory Kessel discovered one of the earliest translations of the Gospels, made in the 3rd century and copied in the 6th century, on individual surviving pages of this manuscript.” - Phys.org
Will Norway have a "Bibel 2011 Only" movement?
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“Revision of John 3:16, John 1:14, Romans 1:1, and other texts prompt controversy in the largely secular Scandinavian country.” - CToday
The Earliest Baptist Critics of the KJV: Leonard Busher (1614) and Henry Jessey (Part 2)
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Naturally enough, we would like to know specifically what it was that Jessey and the 17th century English Baptists found objectionable in the KJV, and our curiosity is soon satisfied by his biographer, who gives a sampling of the kinds of things Jessey sought to remedy with a revised translation. Speaking of Bible translating in the 16th and 17th centuries, and Jessey’s view of it, Edward Whiston wrote:
The Earliest Baptist Critics of the KJV: Leonard Busher (1614) and Henry Jessey (Part 1)
Reprinted with permission from As I See It, which is available free by writing to the editor at [email protected].
(An earlier form of this study was published in Baptist Biblical Heritage, volume 2, no. 1, Spring 1991, pp. 5-8. It appears here in revised and updated form)
Aesop had his fables, the brothers Grimm had their fairy tales, and certain self-styled “defenders of the faith” have their doctrine of an infallible English Bible translation.
Giovanni Diodati, Italian Bible Translator
Reprinted with permission from As I See It, which is available free by writing to the editor at [email protected].
Are Christians Against Abortion Because of an “Ancient Mistranslation”?
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“…what about their argument that there’s a mistranslation in Exodus 21? AiG’s Tim Chaffey, the content manager for our attractions, thoroughly debunks that claim:” - AiG
Wycliffe Associates develops technology to protect Bible translations in remote regions
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“Each kit, worth $2,500, provides access to all the Bible translation software a language group needs, along with a built-in satellite internet connection. When one language group receives a BTAK and translates the Scriptures into their own heart language, they pass along what they’ve learned to other language groups in their region, according to Wycliffe.” - C.Post
