Choosing a Bible.

Choosing a Bible

Donald Kraus

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Author Donald Kraus offers a condensed con·dense
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a. survey of his 20 years of experience professionally assessing, publishing, describing, and defending different Bible translations This article surveys the general history of Bible translations. For translations of the Bible into numerous specific languages, see List of Bible translations. For the Bible in English and its history, see English Bible translations. for readers of all backgrounds in Choosing a Bible: For Worship, Teaching, Study, Preaching, and Prayer. Covering twenty-five different Bible translations, from the Everett Fox Everett Fox is a scholar and translator of the Hebrew Bible. He is currently the Allen M. Glick Professor of Judaic and Biblical Studies at Clark University.

Fox is perhaps best known for his translation into English of the Torah. translation of the Pentateuch and the KJV KJV
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King James Version to the Moffatt Bible and The Message, Choosing a Bible discusses issues of source and target languages, original and contemporary audiences, and gives a quick guide to the defining characteristics of each translation. Choosing a Bible is an overview designed to help lay readers answer the question "Which Bible should I buy?" and does not go into extreme depth, but its list of recommended further reading will certainly point the curious in the right direction for advanced scholarly studies in Biblical translation. Recommended for anyone facing the conundrum of which translation of the Bible to acquire.

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Title Annotation:	Choosing a Bible: For Worship, Teaching, Study, Preaching, and Prayer
Author:	Lane, Margaret
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Date:	Feb 1, 2007
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