English Bibles

Every Man’s Bible

by Eddie 31.08.2010

Men face different challenges than women do, and it is important for men to have a deep understanding of the Holy Scriptures. So the features and notes of this edition were written specifically for men. God created men and women with different strengths and different roles. Our desire in presenting the Every Man’s Bible is [...]

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An Inspired Blog Post

by Eddie 23.08.2010
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The Rev. Drayton Parslow of Frisby on Soar has weighed in on the King James only debate. Please excuse me if I quote him at some length. But let us look closer. What does Paul mean when he says “all Scripture”? Does he mean all things that have been called the Bible, including the Vulgate, [...]

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More on KJV Only

by Eddie 21.08.2010
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I keep promising myself that I won’t mention the King James Only movement again, but every now and then I come across a blog post that I can’t resist mentioning. This is from Dan Wallace: I do not lie when I say that a friend of mine lost his job in a church back in [...]

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The Bible Version Generator Updated

by Eddie 06.07.2010

A couple of years ago, I produced a post called the English Bible Version Generator, which helped you produce names for new versions of the Bible in English. Inspired by (and stealing a little script from – with permission) the wonderful Thomas Hardy plot generator I have revamped the Bible Version Generator as a sidebar [...]

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Problems Confronting Bible Translators

by Eddie 02.07.2010

If, according to the Proverbs of Solomon, “The way of the transgressor is hard” (Prov. 13:15 KJV), the way of the translator is scarcely less so. Not only does the work of translating demand the utmost in concentrated effort, but the result will seldom please everyone — least of all the conscientious translator. Since not [...]

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The Latest Must Have Bible!

by Eddie 14.04.2010

You might be tempted to think that this is a belated April Fool’s joke! Featuring exciting and inspiring full-color inserts with photos of and insights from stock car racing’s finest personalities, the NIV Thinline Bible: Stock Car Edition is sure to be a motorsports fan’s favorite Bible. Motor Racing Outreach, a ministry to the world [...]

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The Lexham English Bible

by Eddie 25.03.2010

Just in case you were worried that you didn’t have enough Bibles in English, along comes the Lexham English Bible which describes itself as a transparent and linear translation. The translation (which is just of the New Testament as far as I can tell) originates with an interlinear Greek English translation which has then been [...]

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What’s in a Word?

by Eddie 21.12.2009

Yesterday in Church, the reader was reading from the NIV and I was following the reading in the NLT on my phone. One little word change between the two, really made me sit up and pay attention. In the NIV Luke 1:44 reads: As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the [...]

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The American Patriot’s Bible

by Eddie 30.05.2009

I don’t have time to write much about this, and my blood pressure probably couldn’t cope with thinking about the subject for long, but some readers of Kouya Chronicle might want to be aware of this new publication. Author, pastor and teacher Dr. Richard Lee and Thomas Nelson Publishing have assembled the original, one-of-a-kind “American [...]

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The Extended Bible

by Eddie 25.05.2009

This morning, I had lots of Google hits for blog posts about a new Bible translation. Following up on the links the reason for the mass blogging became obvious, Thomas Nelson have released a new edition of the New Testament and are giving away free copies to the first people to blog about it. I [...]

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He, She, It or whatever…

by Eddie 01.04.2009

In a world where over a billion people don’t have access to any Scripture at all, I find some of the arguments about which English Bible translation is the best to be a little infuriating. It’s not that I don’t think that there are important issues involved, I just think that we have enough versions [...]

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What Should A Bible Translation Look Like?

by Eddie 24.03.2009

Tim Bulkeley who writes at Sans Blogue (one of the funniest blog titles on the planet in my view) has just written an excellent post on what a Bible translation should look like. What makes paragraphs acceptable and headings anathema? Firstly, almost all “normal” books in our culture have the prose printed in paragraphs, but [...]

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