To: Pokey78
The new translations just keep getting worse and worse. I don't even think the NIV is all that good. When I teach parts of the Bible in one of my courses, I generally use the RSV--an excellent translation based on the traditional Authorized Version (with moderate modernization and a few corrections) and agreed on by Protestant and Catholic scholars working together, before they all started running after strange gods and selling out to the Gender Police.
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02/09/2002 1:01:58 PM PST by
Cicero
To: Cicero
These modern translations destroy the poetry. For example: King James Version: "Lift up ye gates" Modern: "Open the door"
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