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SO SO BIBLE TRANSLATIONS
"THE KING JAMES VERSION"
The "Authorized Version" has such a cloud of emotion swirling around it that it has formed its own cult. Among its worshippers are
some Baptists in the Florida panhandle who think that it is "inspired of God".
We would like to tell you that it is NOT inspired of God. Being almost 500 years old, it is does not benefit from modern critical
scholarship, It knows nothing of the codex Sinaiticus and the Dead Sea scrolls.
J N Darby who translated the "New Translation" mentioned above, used the King James in his English language public ministry.
He
had to. It was the only game in town. The new assemblies of the Brethren Movement used it naturally without any formal decision
to
do so - It presented itself.
One of Darby's greatest services was the publication of his "New Translation". Now the assemblies of Brethren has some
scholarship. Bible students no longer automatically accepted a King James passage, now they looked up the same passage in
Darby
and found an excellent literal translation of it AND some scholarly comments about variant readings.
Paradoxically, Darby loved the King James Version but, as a scholar, analyzed its faults and published them in the introduction to
his
New Translation.
King James cultists would not enjoy reading Darby's Introduction. One unpleasant fact they would learn is the King James is not
based on the Textus Receptus. It is 13 years older than the TR.
GOOD CONCORDANCES
"THE STRONGEST NASB EXHAUSTIVE CONCORDANCE"
Zondervan Publishing Company (whom we do not respect because of their New International Version), has taken over the
publication
of this study tool from Lockman Foundation
This is one of the "high performance" concordances of the Bible that uses the Strong's Numbering System. With this valuable
tool,
you can look up the the underlying Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek works for passages of interest.
Further, it is keyed to the page and quadrant numbers of "A HEBREW AND ENGLISH LEXICON OF THE OLD TESTAMENT" by
Brown, Driver, and Briggs.
If you use the New American Standard Bible - Updated, go out and buy a copy of this book. You will not regret it.
Donald R Slaughter
Director General
The Bible Army