Bill Mounce demonstrates the considerations of nuance that are involved when a literal translation may not always provide the best understanding of the meaning of the text. Would you go do to the wharves and try to attract the attention of a group of fisherman by addressing them as ‘children’? So what did Jesus mean …
In the year that the KJV turns 400 the Common English Bible will be published. You can read all about those behind its production and publishing at the website. It seems that the less conservative neighborhood of the US church want a translation that won’t have them paying royalties to Rupert Murdoch or conservative evangelicals …
Welcome back to my google reader feed, and the internet in general. (Along with a few posts that were there, disappeared and have returned again) Of course there is a one word answer to all of your blogging frustrations. wordpress.com Although I have to confess I would like a social blogroll widget.
Christopher Hitchens, noted atheist, writes about his ongoing experience of throat cancer, the most recent effect of which has been loss of speech. Now dependant upon writing as his sole ‘voice’ Hitchens reflects on having to converse through prose and what the loss of a faculty so innate to his being means to him. The …
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