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To: norge

***If you read virtually any KJV, you will find that the passages such as Mark 16:9-20 are in italics, ****


Not so in my Cambridge!
Or English Oxford!
Or the old Collins/ World,
Or (modern) World!
Or American Oxford!
Or any other KJV.
Only my old printing of the RSV has them gone, but they are in the footnotes.


127 posted on 02/21/2006 3:16:38 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Islam, the religion of the criminally insane.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

That's because there are 3 standarized texts: The Textus Receptus, which was put together by Erasmus and which the KJV is based on, the Alexandrian Text which is what a lot of modern Bibles are based on, and the Byzantine Majority Text, which not too many translators use, but might be even a better way to go (IMHO).

There's a nice short discussion of standardized texts and why people are unhappy with the Alexandrian text - (biased in favor of the BMT) on this website:
http://www.tricountyi.net/~randerse/BYZmenu.htm

There is an online text - The WEB bible which is a modernization of the ASV using the BMJ as its reference which is something worth looking at - it's also intentionally been made public domain.

http://www.ebible.org/web/indexfr.htm


132 posted on 02/21/2006 5:00:25 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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