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Authorized : The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ashland : Lexham Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (101 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781683590569
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Authorized : The Use and Misuse of the King James BibleOnline resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- English Bible Translation -- What Do We Do? -- Chapter 1: What We Lose as the Church Stops Using the KJV -- 1. We Lose Intergenerational Ties in the Body of Christ -- 2. We Lose Scripture Memory by Osmosis -- 3. We Lose a Cultural Touchstone -- 4. We Lose Some of the Implicit Trust Christians Have in the Bibles in Their Laps -- 5. We Lose Some of the Implicit Trust Non-Christians Have in Scripture -- The KJV in the Age of the Tweet -- Chapter 2: The Man in the Hotel and the Emperor of English Bibles -- A Defense of KJV English -- Me and the Least of These -- Fret Not Thyself in Any Wise -- Lessons from a Long Story -- A Personal Turning Point -- Chapter 3: Dead Words and "False Friends" -- Dead Words -- False Friends -- False Friend 1: Halt! -- False Friend 2: God Commendeth His Love -- False Friend 3: So Shall He Sprinkle Many Nations -- False Friend 4: Filthiness Is Not Convenient -- False Friend 5: Pause before You Start Serving Others -- False Friend 6: Remove Not the Ancient Landmark -- You Don't Know What You Don't Know -- More False Friends -- Chapter 4: What Is the Reading Level of the KJV? -- The KJV and Fifth Graders -- Why Readability Analytics Are (Mostly) Irrelevant to KJV English -- 1. These Tools Measure a Word's Complexity by Syllable Count, but that's Not a Reliable Way of Judging Whether a Word Can Be Understood -- 2. Word Order (Syntax) Plays No Role in These Reading-Level Analyses -- 3. Typography Plays No Role in These Reading Analyses -- What Is the Reading Level of the KJV? -- Chapter 5: The Value of the Vernacular -- The Bible and Vernacular Translation -- The Vernacular Greek of the New Testament -- Establishing What Counts as Vernacular -- A Vernacular Heat Map -- A Vernacular Syllogism -- The Reformation and Vernacular Translation.
The KJV Translators and Vernacular Translation -- My Case -- Chapter 6: Ten Objections to Reading Vernacular Bible Translations -- 1. Why Dumb down the Bible? -- Bibles and Interstates -- Translating Shakespeare -- 2. The KJV Sounds like the Word of God -- 3. The KJV Translators Made the KJV Purposefully Archaic -- 4. The KJV Preserves the Important Distinction between Singular and Plural Pronouns -- Tiny Translation Trade-Offs -- The T-V Distinction -- 5. The English Language Has Been Debased since 1611 -- 6. The Modern Versions Drop the Important Practice of Using Italics -- 7. The KJV Is Easier to Memorize -- 8. The KJV Is a Literal Translation -- The Modern Versions Are Loose -- 9. The Modern Versions Are Based on Inferior Greek and Hebrew Texts -- 10. The Problem Isn't as Bad as You're Making It out to Be -- Chapter 7: Which Bible Translation Is Best? -- Trusted Voices on Translations -- A Way out of Bible Translation Tribalism -- A Bible Translation Thought Experiment -- Gold in the Hills -- The Differences between the KJV and Other Translations -- Myles Coverdale on Multiple Bible Translations -- Which Bible(s) Should You Give Your Kids? -- The End of the Matter -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments.
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The King James Version has shaped the church, our worship, and our mother tongue for over 400 years. But what should we do with it today?

The KJV beautifully rendered the Scriptures into the language of turn-of-the-seventeenth-century England. Even today the King James is the most widely read Bible in the United States. The rich cadence of its Elizabethan English is recognized even by non-Christians. But English has changed a great deal over the last 400 years--and in subtle ways that very few modern readers will recognize. In Authorized Mark L. Ward, Jr. shows what exclusive readers of the KJV are missing as they read God's word.#In their introduction to the King James Bible, the translators tell us that Christians must "heare CHRIST speaking unto them in their mother tongue." In Authorized Mark Ward builds a case for the KJV translators' view that English Bible translations should be readable by what they called "the very vulgar"--and what we would call "the man on the street."

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- English Bible Translation -- What Do We Do? -- Chapter 1: What We Lose as the Church Stops Using the KJV -- 1. We Lose Intergenerational Ties in the Body of Christ -- 2. We Lose Scripture Memory by Osmosis -- 3. We Lose a Cultural Touchstone -- 4. We Lose Some of the Implicit Trust Christians Have in the Bibles in Their Laps -- 5. We Lose Some of the Implicit Trust Non-Christians Have in Scripture -- The KJV in the Age of the Tweet -- Chapter 2: The Man in the Hotel and the Emperor of English Bibles -- A Defense of KJV English -- Me and the Least of These -- Fret Not Thyself in Any Wise -- Lessons from a Long Story -- A Personal Turning Point -- Chapter 3: Dead Words and "False Friends" -- Dead Words -- False Friends -- False Friend 1: Halt! -- False Friend 2: God Commendeth His Love -- False Friend 3: So Shall He Sprinkle Many Nations -- False Friend 4: Filthiness Is Not Convenient -- False Friend 5: Pause before You Start Serving Others -- False Friend 6: Remove Not the Ancient Landmark -- You Don't Know What You Don't Know -- More False Friends -- Chapter 4: What Is the Reading Level of the KJV? -- The KJV and Fifth Graders -- Why Readability Analytics Are (Mostly) Irrelevant to KJV English -- 1. These Tools Measure a Word's Complexity by Syllable Count, but that's Not a Reliable Way of Judging Whether a Word Can Be Understood -- 2. Word Order (Syntax) Plays No Role in These Reading-Level Analyses -- 3. Typography Plays No Role in These Reading Analyses -- What Is the Reading Level of the KJV? -- Chapter 5: The Value of the Vernacular -- The Bible and Vernacular Translation -- The Vernacular Greek of the New Testament -- Establishing What Counts as Vernacular -- A Vernacular Heat Map -- A Vernacular Syllogism -- The Reformation and Vernacular Translation.

The KJV Translators and Vernacular Translation -- My Case -- Chapter 6: Ten Objections to Reading Vernacular Bible Translations -- 1. Why Dumb down the Bible? -- Bibles and Interstates -- Translating Shakespeare -- 2. The KJV Sounds like the Word of God -- 3. The KJV Translators Made the KJV Purposefully Archaic -- 4. The KJV Preserves the Important Distinction between Singular and Plural Pronouns -- Tiny Translation Trade-Offs -- The T-V Distinction -- 5. The English Language Has Been Debased since 1611 -- 6. The Modern Versions Drop the Important Practice of Using Italics -- 7. The KJV Is Easier to Memorize -- 8. The KJV Is a Literal Translation -- The Modern Versions Are Loose -- 9. The Modern Versions Are Based on Inferior Greek and Hebrew Texts -- 10. The Problem Isn't as Bad as You're Making It out to Be -- Chapter 7: Which Bible Translation Is Best? -- Trusted Voices on Translations -- A Way out of Bible Translation Tribalism -- A Bible Translation Thought Experiment -- Gold in the Hills -- The Differences between the KJV and Other Translations -- Myles Coverdale on Multiple Bible Translations -- Which Bible(s) Should You Give Your Kids? -- The End of the Matter -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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