Subject: What do you think of new Holman Bible? |
Bible Note: Agreed. KJV for four centuries has been, and continues to be, a beautiful work. Its words have music in them. Hailed by John Livingston Lowes "the noblest monument of English prose" it has long been regarded a paradigm of English usage. When I hear someone decry the old KJV I cannot help but think they are allowing their ignorance to ooze out. But, on balance, the English language of our time is considerably different from the Jacobean language of 1611. While no translation of the Bible since the King James translators set pen to paper in 1611 quite reaches the lofty linguistic heights they reached, we must in our efforts to seek the truth of God's beloved Word, look first for clarity of meaning at the expense of, if it must be, literary excellence. I cannot resist adding in defense of the Authorized Version, that for all its archaic vocabulary and turns of phrase, is far and away to be preferred over some of the modern renditions that masquerade as Holy Writ. |