Joe Myzia has an interesting post about Bible translation philosophies on TNIV Truth, raising some great questions about how and why we each choose what type of Bible to use. I left a lengthy comment in his post, but wanted to explore the topic a little more here as well. First, a little bit of [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Rick Mansfield has posted his comments on The Modern Language Bible: New Berkeley Edition on This Lamp. The MLB was an early (~1950) effort to use modern language as a translation principle and move away from the archaic KJV. It would be interesting to compare the MLB to the New English Bible, which was first [...]
I finally had a chance to get to the local Northwestern Christian bookstore and see some of the new Bibles that are out. I especially wanted to see the new printing of the NLTse Premium Slimline Reference Bible, which Rick Mansfield recently reviewed on This Lamp. I was a bit let down after reading his [...]
John Hobbins (Ancient Hebrew Poetry) has written some thoughts on unfulfilled prophecy and Biblical literalism that I found interesting to read in light of my previous summary of preterist eschatology.
Fyi, Larry has added a guest review of Writings of St. Paul, 2nd Edition (Meeks & Fitzgerald) on Rick Mansfield’s THIS LAMP blog. I’ve updated the list of Study Bible reviews in my previous post.
Joe Myzia recently posted a review of “The Apocalypse Code” by Hank Hanegraff, a book that apparently critiques evangelical eschatology, and especially the brand of dispensational premillennialism advocated by authors LaHaye and Lindsey, from a preterist viewpoint: “Hank’s view is that of partial preterism. Don’t let Hank fool you on his broadcast when he claims he’s not a [...]
Cindy took Ben to get his first haircut at age 16 months (almost). While his hair is thin, Ben had a good length to cut; it was down to the middle of his shoulder blades when wet. Ben’s hair has been getting progressively lighter from its original color.
Uploaded photos for the first half of May. The backstory to some of the shots is that Ben initially wanted nothing to do with grass. He would do anything to avoid being in the grass and having it touch him, going so far as to crawl on the decorative stone border around house and/or the [...]
Congratulations to Cindy, who took her MBTI certification test on Friday after a long week of studying. Passing the test will allow her to officially administer and evaluate the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality test with her coaching clients.
Rick Mansfield has recently posted his notes on several specific Bibles from various publishers. His reviews are thorough and well worth reading. NLTse, “Premium Slimline Reference (Large Print) from Tyndale: “I don’t consider myself all that picky, but after three years of the NLTse’s existence, I still couldn’t find a decent copy for public use. [...]
