From: Jerrel Sturdy (muskogeean44@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 22 2001 - 18:15:53 EDT
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>From: "Jerrel Sturdy" <muskogeean44@hotmail.com>
>To: muskogeean44@hotmail.com
>Subject: TEXTS, TRANSMISSION, TRANSLATIONS, ETC.--Keep
>Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 22:10:30 +0000
>
>Even though the translation list is designed for translation matters, I 
>wish to share these codes for anybody who would like to use them.  First, I 
>want to list two sources that I have on printed paper.  Not off Internet at 
>all.
>
>      Modern Textual Criticism and the Revival of the Textus Receptus. 
>Gordon D. Fee.  Gordon D. Fee is associate professor of New Testament at 
>Gordon-Cornwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts.  (He 
>was when I received this work from my friend Wayne Jackson, preacher for 
>East Main Street church of Christ in Stockton, California, in the early 
>1980s.  He may not be there now.)  I could copy that for someone on a 
>limited-time basis if one would want to pay the cost of copying and 
>postage.)
>
>      Matter of fact, the date was March 1978 and possibly was from the 
>Journal of Biblical Literature.
>
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>
>
>
>      Debate on KJV.  From Facts for Faith, Volume III, Number 10, October 
>1972.  Gordon Wilson, editor, now perhaps extant.  The proposition was:  
>"Is the King James Version nearest to the original autographs?"   David 
>Otis Fuller, now deceased if memory serves me right affirmed it is.  My 
>preacher friend Daniel King Sr. of Tennessee denied that.  It is printed 
>and it has 11 pages.  I can copy it if somebody wants to pay for the cost 
>of copying and postage.  Brother King undeniably showed that the KJV is not 
>the best nor is the Textus Receptus the best.  Fuller did not even try to 
>retort it.
>
>
>_____________________
>
>
>
>      I would like to quote from Page 103, "The Accuracy of the NIV,"  by 
>Kenneth L. Barker.  Baker Book House Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49516.
>
>
>      "The writer heartily commends to today's minister a ministry of the 
>word of God.
>
>
>      Study it diligently.
>
>      Believe it implicitly.
>
>
>      Obey it completely.
>
>
>      Expound it faithfully.
>
>
>      I would add now:  Translate it correctly, that is, with the best 
>BALANCE between faithfulness to the original languages and faithfulness to 
>the English language.  Such a balanced approach is the surest path to 
>accuracy in translation." Amen.
>
>
>      What Mr. Barker wrote needs some consideration.  (J. S.)
>
>
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>
>
>      Now I would like to give some codes for some sources:
>
>
>
>      NIV. Translation comparison chart.
>
>      http://www.zondervan.com/NIVinfo.htm
>
>      The New International Version (NIV) Bible Fact Sheet.
>
>      http://www.zondervan.com/nivfact1.htm
>
>      History of the New International (NIV) Bible
>
>      http://www.zondervan.com/nivhist.htm
>
>      NIV Contributors.
>
>      http://www.zondervan.com/nivcont.htm
>
>      Were KJV Translators Inspired?  King James Version (KJV) ONLY?
>
>      http://www.bible.ca/b-kjv-only.htm
>
>      (That one is extremely good.  J. S.)
>
>
>      Why Dean Burgon Would NOT Join "The Dean Burgon Society" by Gary R. 
>Hudson.
>
>
>      http/::members.aol.com/pilgrimpub/burgon.htm
>
>      (That is an very good one, too.  Get it!!!  J. S.)
>
>
>      Statement DK115.  Is Your Modern Translation Corrupt?  Answering the 
>Allegations of KJV Only Advocates.  By James R. White.  (Good one, too.  J. 
>S.)
>
>
>      http://www.equip.org/free/DK115.htm
>
>      Questions and Answers.  "Were the King James Version Translators 
>Biased Toward the 'Faith-Only' Doctrine?"  By Wayne Jackson, an Internet 
>bulletin from East Main church of Christ, Stockton, California.  I also 
>have Wayne Jackson's book "The Bible Translation Controversy."  It is 
>pretty good.  Apologetics Press, 230 Landmark Drive, Montgomery, Alabama  
>36117-2752.  It is not too expensive.  About 32 pages.
>
>
>      http://christiancourier.com/questions/biasedTranslatorsQuestions.htm
>
>
>      Probe Ministries.  The Debate Over the King James Version by Rick 
>Wade.
>
>
>      http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/kjvdebat.html
>
>
>      IF ONE WANTS A MIGHTY FINE TRANSLATION, TRY THIS:
>
>
>      The Sacred Writings of the Apostles and Evangelists of Jesus Christ.  
>Commonly styled the New Testament Translated from the Original Greek by 
>doctors George Campbell, James MacKnight and Philip Doddridge with 
>Prefaces, Various Emandations and an Appendix.  Published under Alexander 
>Campbell's leadership.  Fourth Edition.  Bethany, Brooke County, Virginia.  
>  (A very excellent work.  These guys took out all the ecclesiastical words 
>as best they could.)
>
>
>      http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/texts/acampbell/tlo4?TLO400A.HTM
>
>
>      This goes along with Living Oracles, the translation from above.  
>Table XIV.  Apostolic Words and Phrases.  Which have been subjects of 
>controversy; alphabetically arranged and defined from their current 
>acceptation in the "Christian" scriptures.
>
>
>      http://www.mun.ca/rels/restnov/texts/acampbell/tlo4/TLO400LF.HTM
>
>      7Q5:  The Earliest NT Papyrus?  By Daniel B. Wallace PhD.  Professor 
>of New Testament Studies. Dallas Theological Seminary.  Review of Carsten 
>Peter Thiede, The Earliest Gospel Manuscript?
>
>
>      http://www.bible.org/docs/soapbox/7q5.htm
>
>      The Conspiracy Behind the New Bible Translations.  By Daniel B. 
>Wallace, noted above.
>
>
>      http://www.bible.org/docs/soapbox/conspire.htm
>
>
>      The Majority Text and the Original Text:  Are They Identical?  By 
>Daniel B. Wallace, noted above.
>
>
>      http://www.bible.org/docs/soapbox/91b2.htm
>
>
>      Another Bible, Another Gospel. By Robert Barker.
>
>
>      http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/another.htm
>
>
>      Significant Textual Variants.  TR vs. MT.  By Gary F. Zoella.
>
>
>      http://www.org/versions/book/variants-tr-mt.htm
>
>      Errors in the Greek Text Behind Modern Translations?  The cases of 
>Matthew 1:7, 10 and Luke 23:45.
>
>      http://www.bible.org/docs/soapbox/errors.htm
>
>      That one is by Daniel Wallace, too, noted above.
>
>
>      Errors and Mistranslations in the KJV.  Written by Richard Nickels.  
>"Why are there errors in the King James Version?"
>
>
>      http://www.angelfire.com/hi2/graphic1designer/errors.html
>
>
>      John 5:44.
>
>      http://www.genesisnetwork.net/business/consider/john544.htm
>
>      "Is the claim correct that many early translations and writings of 
>the church fathers show they are in support of the Byzantine text?"  No 
>author that I see.
>
>
>      wallace@bible.org/docs/q&a/q&a-151.htm">http://wallace@bible.org/docs/q&a/q&a-151.htm
>
>
>      (Must be Daniel Wallace.  J. S.)
>
>
>       The New American Standard Version!   Is this the Word of God?  (Must 
>be by a KJV-only writer.  J. S.)
>
>
>      http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/sbs777/vital/kjv/nasv.html
>
>      The New International Version!   Is this the word of God?
>
>
>      http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/sbs777/vital/kjv/niv.html
>
>
>      THE UPDATED NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE(c).   "The most literal is 
>now more readable."  The Lockman Foundation.
>
>
>      http://www.gospelcom.net/lockman/trans/trans.htm
>
>
>      NAS95:  Review.  By Gary F. Zoella.
>
>
>      http://www.dtl.org/versions/article/nas95.htm
>
>
>      I have other sources of material on texts and translations, but these 
>are on Internet or else I will copy two of them.  Sent in hope of 
>edification only.  J. S.
>
>
>
>
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