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Bible Note: Dear Messenger : The revision of the 1901 edition of the American Standard Version had its genesis in the mind of one man, Dewey Lockman, a Baptist layman and wealthy citrus grower of La Habra, California. Being a businessman and not a Bible translator, he made no attempt to revise the ASV himself, but using mainly his own financial resources, which were considerable, Mr. Lockman engaged a team of respected and highly trained Bible scholars and translators and the project was launched from which emerged the New American Standard Bible. ........ So now, sir or madam, may I ask you why some several years later you take upon yourself, so you say, the task of revising the ASV of 1901? Do you somehow feel that the team of professional scholars who spent hour upon hour on the revision of the 1901 ASV in order to produce the NASB botched the job so badly that you decided to come along and fix it? ..... And this seems a fair question to ask you at this point: What insights do you have that you presume the team of translators did not have? And whence came your insights? What qualifies you to be able to revise the ASV and get it right? What's wrong with the NASB anyway? ....... The regular readers of this Forum are not ignorant of the tetragrammaton, YHWH. I question the appropriateness of devoting post after post to the topic you've introduced in view of the fact that much has already been said about it in the archives of this Forum. ...... By the way, you apparently misread a few points given in the Forum guidelines. You don't have to ask a question to create a post and you certainly are not expected to answer your own question. A post may be created by (1) asking a question, (2) answering someone else's question, or (3) writing a note or responding to one. --Hank |