by David W. Cloud
Pages: 329 (7 X 8", perfect bound)
This book deals with eight popular myths surrounding the modern Bible version issue. Myth One, Erasmus was merely a humanist. Myth Two, the Reformation editors lacked sufficient manuscript evidence. Myth Three, differences between texts and versions affect no doctrine. Myth Four, inspiration was infallible but preservation is fallible. Myth Five, the scholars do not support the Received Text. Myth Six, modern texts and versions are based upon Bible-believing scholarship. Myth Seven, Evangelical scholarship can be trusted. Myth Eight, dynamic equivalency is a faithful method for translating the Scriptures. The book answers questions such as the following: Why are the modern Bible versions so different from the KJV? Is it true that the differences between the versions do not affect doctrine? What is the Received Text? What is the Westcott-Hort Text? Is it still influential? Who are the scholars who defend the King James Bible? Is modern textual criticism based upon biblical principles? Who were the men who developed modern textual criticism? (The book contains reports on most influential textual critics and modern translators of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Johann Wetstein, Johann Griesbach, Karl Lachmann, Constantine Tischendorf, Westcott and Hort, George Vance Smith, Philip Schaff, Ezra Abbot, Joseph Thayer, Caspar Rene Gregory, Walter Bowie, Edgar Goodspeed, James Moffatt, C.H. Dodd, Carlo Martini, Eugene Nida, Bruce Metzger, Kurt Aland, Robert Bratcher, William Barclay, F.F. Bruce, Fredric Kenyon, Ernest Colwell, Frederick Conybeare, Samuel Driver, Gerhard Kittel, Kirsopp Lake, J.B. Phillips, Henry Wheeler Robinson, and Hermann von Soden.) Who was John Burgon? Who are the editors of the United Bible Societies Greek Text? Why did the Unitarians love the Westcott-Hort Greek text? Why do most Evangelical scholars support the modern versions? Does Psalm 12:7 refer to the preservation of God’s Word? Why do textual critics ignore divine preservation? Why do so many seminaries reject the Received Text? Who is Bruce Metzger? Why does Billy Graham support the modern versions? What kinds of Bibles are being translated into foreign languages? Is the fight for the KJV necessary? Do I have to be a Greek scholar to understand this issue? Where was the preserved Word of God before 1611? Jack Moorman says: "This book is excellent! It presents a good and thorough overview of the subject, and I found it especially helpful in dealing with some of the 'nit picking' arguments the other side has raised in recent years." 328 pages, 7X8, perfect bound. $19.95 (Excerpt taken from Way of life website)
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(subtitle, "God's Word Kept Intact In English)
by Pastor D.A. Waite, Th. D, Ph. D.
Director, The Bible For Today
This work purports that the King James has a fourfold superiority in it's:
1. Texts
2. Translators
3. Technique
4. Theology
A product of over 28 years of the author's thinking, researching, writing, publishing, and speaking, this volume attempts to answer two vital questions, "Which English Bible are we to read, study, memorize, preach from, and use today?", and "Can we say the bible we hold in our hands is the Word of God in English?". Dr. Waite attempts to help answer these questions for the reader in this 327 pg. volume.
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