Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!mangoe
From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Bible Translations
Message-ID: <4494@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 23:05:29 EST
Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.4494
Posted: Mon Apr  1 23:05:29 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 3-Apr-85 02:45:26 EST
References: <8368@watarts.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD
Lines: 21

[Forgot my sales pitch]

There is a very interesting and useful book on this subject:

        _The Word of God_
         F. Lloyd Bailey, ed.
         John Knox Press (1983, I think)

It contains discussions of various points of biblical scholarship,
linguistics, and translation, followed by reviews of the good and bad points
of all of the major translations available at the time (the NKJV is not
reviewed, however).  These all proceed out of a doggedly mainline protestant
viewpoint, so the evangelicals out there are probably going to have a lot of
problems with this book.  At the end is an important piece which lays out
the circumstances surrounding the creation of the KJV.  Everyone should read
this, as it will undoubtedly conflict with commonly held notions about that
translation.  (Few people know, for instance, that the orginal editions all
contained the Apocrypha, and were heavily annotated.)  I highly recommend
this book.

Charley Wingate   umcp-cs!mangoe