BIBLE BABEL.(view on the many translations of the Christian Bible)

From: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and PublicLife | Date: May 1, 2001| Author: Neuhaus, Richard John | Copyright information

"If I had the authority," declared the leader of an evangelical parachurch empire, "I'd almost be ready to decree that we go back to the King James." That in response to my having written here that, if I had the authority, everybody would use the Revised Standard Version. The sorry fact is that English-speaking Christians have largely lost a common biblical vocabulary as a consequence of the proliferation of translations--and of paraphrases passing as translations--over the last fo...

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