WM 315: Review: Gallagher on Paul, LXX, and Canon

 

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Article: "Does the King James Version Wrongly Translate Acts 5:30?"

 

 

Jeffrey T. Riddle, "Does the King James Version Wrongly Translate Acts 5:30?" Bible League Quarterly, No. 499 (October-December, 2024): 22-28 [PDF Draft].

You can read it here on my academia.edu page.

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Notes:

Draft PDF: Some spacing and tab adjustments needed. Corrections: P. 23 change "kremantes" to "kremasantes" in two places P. 25 add bold to RSV and NIV citations P. 26 remove duplicate of word "that" P. 27 change "constitutes" to "constitute" P. 28 change "causes" to "cause"

Jonathan Arnold: Old Testament Bible Translation and the LXX (RBS 2024 Breakout Session)

 

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IN THE GAP with Will Odendall: Interview with Jeff Riddle on Bible Translations, etc.

 

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Audio: The Translators to the Reader.Part 15: Reasons inducing us not to stand curiously upon an identity of phrasing

 

Last installment in this series: Translators to Reader.Part 15.

"Another thing we think good to admonish thee of, gentle Reader, that we have not tied ourselves to a uniformity of phrasing, or to an identity of words...."

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Audio: The Translators to the Reader.Part 14: Reasons moving us to set diversity of senses in the margin, where there is great probability for each

 

"...it hath pleased God to scatter words and sentences of that difficulty and doubtfulness, not in doctrinal points that concern salvation... but in matters of less moment..."

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Audio: The Translators to the Reader.Part 13: The purpose of the Translators, with their number, furniture, care, etc.

 

Here we find the famous statement that they saw no need to make a completely new translation, but "to make a good one better, or out of many good ones one principal good one."

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Audio: The Translators to the Reader: An answer to the imputations of our adversaries

 

"...the very meanest translation of the Bible in English... containeth the word of God, nay, is the word of God..."

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Audio: The Translators to the Reader.Part 11: A satisfaction to our brethren

 

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Audio: The Translators to the Reader.Part 10: The speeches and reasons, both of our brethren and of our adversaries, against this work

 

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Audio: The Translators to the Reader.Part 9: The unwillingness of our chief adversaries that the Scriptures should be divulged in the mother tongue, etc.

 

Part 9 attacks the Roman church's opposition to vernacular Bible translations:

"So much are they afraid of the light of the Scripture... that they will not trust the people with it...."

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Audio: The Translators to the Reader.Part 8: The translating of the Scripture into the vulgar tongues

 

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Audio: The Translators to the Reader.Part 7: Translation out of Hebrew and Greek into Latin

 

What did the AV translators think of Latin translations of the Bible (Old Latin and Vulgate)?

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Audio: The Translators to the Reader.Part 6: The Translation of the Old Testament out of Hebrew into Greek

 

In section 6 of the KJV Preface, a robust Protestant view of Greek translations of the OT, including the LXX, is set forward. It provides much needed clarification for our day.

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Audio: The Translators to the Reader.Part 5: Translation necessary

 

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Audio: The Translators to the Reader.Part 4: The praise of the Holy Scriptures

 

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Note: Great insights in this section into Protestant Bibliology.

Audio: The Translators to the Reader.Part 2: The highest personages have been calumniated

 

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Note: Parts One and Three are posted here. I forgot to post this episode to the blog when it was first recorded.

Audio: The Translators to the Reader.Part 3: His Majesty's constancy, notwithstanding calumniation, for the survey of the English translations

 

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Audio: The Translators to the Reader.Part 1: The best things have been calumniated

 

My audio series reading through the preface to the AV (1611) continues.

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Jots & Tittles 23: An Error in Psalm 10:13 (MEV)

 

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