Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: cattanac@casca.cs.uiuc.edu (Scott Cattanach) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Bible versions Message-ID: Date: 16 Jul 90 06:38:34 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: U of Illinois, CS Dept., Systems Research Group Lines: 45 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu chl@cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) writes: >Thanks for the various texts of John 1. A notable omission was the genuine KJV >text which, to my taste, has not been bettered by anything else. It has a >better rhythm (and this is poetry not prose) and the slightly unusual word >ordering (putting the word "not" at the end, for example) does a lot to point >out the message: > He was in the world, and the world was made by him, > And the world knew him not. > He came unto his own > And his own received him not. >(Pardon small errors, I am quoting from memory). >However, my question is this. This KJV text was based on even earlier >translations. Does anyone have access to the text of the Tyndale or Coverdale >versions which they would care to post? Sorry for the omission. In my collecting, I consider newer translations to sort of subsume the older ones. More of a method for keeping my costs down than anything else, hence when I buy a New Jerusalem Bible, I can forgo the old one and I can pass on an RSV as I have a NRSV. I mention this to explain that I left off the KJV because I quoted the NKJV. Below is the King James text: JOH 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. JOH 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God. JOH 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. JOH 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. JOH 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. I know that someone sells the 1611 version of the KJV (mispellings :-) and all), I don't have ISBN, etc. -- -catt (cattanac@cs.uiuc.edu) Carthage must be destroyed.