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Recent Content by John of Japan

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    Why is the New International Version Bible translation so popular? What are your thoughts on that?

    Do you have a source for Fee saying the NIV was more accurate than the NASB & KJB?
    Post by: John of Japan, Jan 4, 2020 in forum: Bible Versions & Translations
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    Why is the New International Version Bible translation so popular? What are your thoughts on that?

    Thank you.
    Post by: John of Japan, Jan 4, 2020 in forum: Bible Versions & Translations
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    Why is the New International Version Bible translation so popular? What are your thoughts on that?

    Not surprising.
    Post by: John of Japan, Jan 4, 2020 in forum: Bible Versions & Translations
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    Why is the New International Version Bible translation so popular? What are your thoughts on that?

    Unfortunately I'm still in the hospital now after emergency surgery for diverticulitis on Christmas Eve, so the book is out of reach. I do...
    Post by: John of Japan, Jan 4, 2020 in forum: Bible Versions & Translations
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    Why is the New International Version Bible translation so popular? What are your thoughts on that?

    But very inaccurate. I had already researched this out for myself, but I recently had to read Gordon Fee's classic commentary on 1 Cor., and he...
    Post by: John of Japan, Jan 3, 2020 in forum: Bible Versions & Translations
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    Books on Bible Translation

    Dr. Wendsland is scholar and a gracious man--nor always the same. As for me, I'm in the hospital after emergency surgery on my intestines on...
    Post by: John of Japan, Dec 26, 2019 in forum: Bible Versions & Translations
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    TITHEMI Translation choices

    Yes it does. It's an idiom, so you can't go by the literal meaning.
    Post by: John of Japan, Dec 19, 2019 in forum: Bible Versions & Translations
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    Books on Bible Translation

    Lady of the Tboli, by Doris Fell, is a 1979 biography of Wycliffe translator Vivian Forsberg who translated the New Testament into the language of...
    Post by: John of Japan, Dec 17, 2019 in forum: Bible Versions & Translations
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    Heirloom Bibles

    I have a very small NT that belonged to my father, who has been in Heaven for some years. In the back, it has hashmarks for 88 people led to...
    Post by: John of Japan, Dec 17, 2019 in forum: Bible Versions & Translations
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    TITHEMI Translation choices

    No, I'm not one of the translators of the NASB. That's who you should ask. I'm the lead translator of the Lifeline Japanese Bible, and can answer...
    Post by: John of Japan, Dec 16, 2019 in forum: Bible Versions & Translations
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    TITHEMI Translation choices

    Ask the translators.
    Post by: John of Japan, Dec 16, 2019 in forum: Bible Versions & Translations
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    TITHEMI Translation choices

    Not a hard problem. Those two books were translated by different committees in the KJV translation effort, so they translated the idiom somewhat...
    Post by: John of Japan, Dec 16, 2019 in forum: Bible Versions & Translations
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    TITHEMI Translation choices

    That is correct, though both use tithemi.
    Post by: John of Japan, Dec 16, 2019 in forum: Bible Versions & Translations
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    TITHEMI Translation choices

    I'm sorry you took my post this way. I was not trying to insult or offend you. To the contrary, I was interacting with you just as I do with my...
    Post by: John of Japan, Dec 16, 2019 in forum: Bible Versions & Translations
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    TITHEMI Translation choices

    Mark 15:19 and Luke 22:41 are exactly the same idiom with different syntax. Mark uses the present active participle of tithemi, and Luke uses the...
    Post by: John of Japan, Dec 16, 2019 in forum: Bible Versions & Translations