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1 | The Problem With Recent Bible Versions | Eccl 12:12 | kalos | 111076 | ||
Quotable Quote "Robert Alter has written that the problem with the KJV is its shaky sense of Hebrew, while the problem with more recent versions is their shaky sense of English..." (http://www.gnpcb.org/page/esv_firstthings/) |
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2 | The Problem With Recent Bible Versions | Eccl 12:12 | Hank | 111090 | ||
Kalos, if one might be permitted to call the King James Version the "Old World Translation" and were willing to concede that its sense of Hebrew may have been shaky in spots, few would deny its mastery of the King's English. On the other hand, there is loose in this world a literary nightmare called the "New World Translation" that wins the shaky trifecta: shaky Hebrew, shaky Greek, shaky English. --Hank | ||||||