My friend Hall Harris of Dallas Seminary blogged about this recently. Timely, since Hall has done a New Testament Greek-English interlinear for us, and will be embarking on producing a literalized translation for us for our own (Logos Bible Software, my employer) translation of the NT.
Editor’s note: replaced link to go to actual product.
Also, see comments below re: question about Revelation 8:13.
I’ve had a number of people ask my opinion of Alter’s new translation. I haven’t read it. I also had several people send me the recent Wall Street Journal review by Blaire French. (Thanks to all of them!) I’ve reproduced it below. It’s a...
The first few sentences of this review of the Song of Songs (aka, the Song of Solomon) in the Passion Translation (the one that is enthusiastically promoted by NAR apostles) says it all: This translation of the Song of Songs is truly awful. As a professor of biblical...
I sometimes get email asking about transliteration (and pronunciation) of Hebrew words. Transliteration can help folks who want to try and pronounce Hebrew. This new online tool allows you to paste in Hebrew text and get an instant transliteration (an accurate one,...
This just popped into my In box. I apologize for being so behind the curve on this but, as I noted on my “About” page, I don’t follow the NAR (New Apostolic Reformation) nor do I think its distinctive teachings are scriptural. But lots of movements...
Last November I interviewed Dr. Carl Sanders and Dr. Thomas Hudgins about their controversial paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society. The paper argues that major shifts in thinking about how biblical languages are taught and what...
Hat tip to Todd Bolen at the Bible Places blog for this post. If you have a Kindle and are into biblical Hebrew, you’ll no doubt be interested.
i have a question about Revelation 8:13….In the KJV and NKJV it says ” I looked ,and i heard an angel flying in the midst of heaven.”….but new translations say its an eagle flying….. which is correct?
The “angel” rendering is a Textus Receptus reading, on which the KJV is based. “Eagle” has the support of the older major uncial manuscripts.