Romans 3:12- July 11, 2008 Here is an interesting verse where I think the ESV did the right thing and kept the KJV tradition. It also brings up the question of how Paul cited the LXX. In Romans 3:4, Paul cites Ps. 51:4,so that you may be justified in your wordsand blameless in your judgment. Ps. 51:4 ESV"That you may be justified in your words,and prevail when you are judged." ESV Ps. 51:4 Rom. 3:4 Of course, Ps. 51:4 in the ESV is translated from the Hebrew. That thou mightest be justified in thy.http://englishbibles.blogspot.com/2008/07/romans-312.html Putting paid to the complementarian position on 1 Corinthians 14:33-34- July 10, 2008 The title of a post at the Evangelical Textual Criticism blog, International SBL Meetings in Auckland, New Zealand, gave me little clue to the great significance of its content, the second paragraph. I would of course like to see the paper of which this is a summary. But it seems to have overthrown one of the main bases within the New Testament text for the complementarian position, and demonstrated why many translations of the passage in question, 1 Corinthians 14:33-34, are in error.The...http://englishbibles.blogspot.com/2008/07/putting-paid-to-complementarian.html The Bible doesn't say- July 10, 2008 In a maelstrom of otherwise incomprehensible verbiage, a note of sanity emerges. Here is my number one pick of the day. Doug writes, The Bible doesn't say. Words to heal the wounded soul.In memory of a long forgotten meme, I would like to mention some spoof posts - only these are not spoofs. Let's laugh, cry and share some fellow feeling.Gone with the wind pulls a post. Absolutely unheard of but in a good cause.Bard and Bible recommends an illustrated abridged paraphrase edition of Shakespeare..http://englishbibles.blogspot.com/2008/07/bible-doesnt-say.html NLT Blog: Words in the New Living Translation- July 8, 2008 Several times I have wished that there would be a blog to promote the NLT (New Living Translation). Tonight I found out that there is one. In one of its first posts, Keith Williams responds to a post by Tim Challies. Tim prefers the ESV. In his post he criticizes translations like the NLT which are not "essentially literal." I left a comment on Tim's post.http://englishbibles.blogspot.com/2008/07/nlt-blog-words-in-new-living.html Elsewhere- July 4, 2008 I am sorry to be absent from here. I note with delight all the memes and mirth. I have been elsewhere protesting against certain teachings which wrongfully derive from the doctrine of the subordination of women. (which is in itself wrong, but I don't expect to convince anyone of that who is not already convinced.) If you wish please add your comments to the thread. 1159 comments and still climbing.http://englishbibles.blogspot.com/2008/07/elsewhere.html Easy as 1-2-3- July 3, 2008 By posting this I'm not just trying to lure you from the respectable Better Bibles Blog to my weird Lingamish blog. But I do want to bring to your attention a post with a rather interesting comment thread: Beg to differ. In this post I listed 9 axioms of Bible translation and begged my readers to differ. Differ they did. In fact, Iyov wasn't sure he could agree with any of them. You might check out the list and see if you agree with what I've written, but I wanted to make sure BBB readers had a.http://englishbibles.blogspot.com/2008/07/easy-as-1-2-3.html |