Day: September 6, 2009

Bible Translations and Mistranslations

On Literal Translations – A Quick Note

A post by Polycarp on his blog calls into question John Piper’s demand for a translation “that has all the words.” I frequently find it useful to look at modern languages to see how valid a particular approach to translation is. For example, if I’m translating from French into English, which would I prefer? How…
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More On Parallel Passages

On Thursday, I posted about the English translations of near-parellel passages in Mark and Matthew. It got me thinking about Chronicles, which frequently quotes other books such as Kings. II Chronicles 6:1-5, for example, seems to be an update (grammatically and in terms of spelling) of I Kings 8:12-16. In particular, I Kings 8:15 and…
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