Eternal Perspectives: speaks of the ESV and admits his ignorance of the issues that translators consider carefully. He goes on to mention a specific case from Moo- “Moo is saying, in essence, that he has made a choice about this particular passage but he understands that others see it differently. He stands by his choice and believes it to be the best approach when all the factors are taken into consideration. But he is not so presumptuous or arrogant to... Read more
I nearnly won a demerit award!! I was only a runner up though! Heres what Challies says “Honorable mentions go to the seperated-at-birth-brothers Jollyblogger and Adrian Warnock both of whom must feel obligated to post the full list of users associated with the aggregators they manage.” Well, guess what I dont feel obligated and nor should anyone else! As of today, no more BoG blogroll on my site. I will instead link to a selection of Blogs from the BoG... Read more
How did you determine the Greek text used for translation did the Textus Receptus play any role? Watch Vern Poythress respond (Windows Media format). Previous | Next <!– D(["mb","rnrn Sometimes people worry about what’s called thernTextus Receptus. That’s a technical term for the first printed edition ofrnthe Greek Bible that was done by Erasmus. It was revolutionary because mostrnpeople until that time either had no access to a Bible, or they had access tornthe Vulgate, which was the Latin translation... Read more
Glenn’s home is the new blog of a regular reader and commentator on my blog whos comments I have been impressed with. It turns out that unlike me he will be at the newfrontiers conference this summer. Could well be a blog to keep an eye on in the future! Read more
I have been trying to stir up a little controversy by linking to peoples posts on the ESV that are in any way critical. I have been encouraged by the way people have then come back so graciously and said “O no, we didnt mean to be critical!”. I actually would love this blog to be a focus for a while of genuine robust debate about the translation- I am no sychophant to Crossway although I am impressed enough with... Read more
Better Bibles Blog has an: ESV guest editorial, by Paul Whiting which leaps into the fray to critique the ESV. Come on people, you can do it, lets get som serious discussion going (without getting heated!). I could offer to act as unbaised moderator, but I know that would be unfair of me! Read more
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What use is a debate without debators! Jeremy is another of my fantastic blogging protagonists. It sometimes gets close to a school debating society. Now theres an idea….two blogs arguing back and forth on an issue. A vote pre the exchange and a vote after with the rest of the blogosphere active onlookers linking to posts, rubbishing some and extending the arguments of others. If all done in a civilised manner we could recreate the dying notion of a vibrant... Read more
David Warnock is not a relative of mine, but he is a UK Christian blogger who like me enjoys an astonishing and humbling number of links. Amazingly in the new UK bloggers community over at Truth Laid Bear he (like me) has been consistently in the top 5 of all UK blogs ranked for links. Considering that the UK is such a pagan country to have two God bloggers in that kind of position is quite something. Actually to me... Read more
A couple of days after my post entitled theology at 30000 feet Jollyblogger has also posted on “the New Perspectives on Paul“. This is not quite as synchronised as when we posted within a minute of each other on the same subject, but not far off! Read more
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