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Grade Level

What grade level was the KJV written on?

  • 3rd grade

    Votes: 2 5.3%
  • 5th grade

    Votes: 3 7.9%
  • 7th grade

    Votes: 3 7.9%
  • 9th grade

    Votes: 2 5.3%
  • 11 grade

    Votes: 7 18.4%
  • college freshman

    Votes: 6 15.8%
  • college junior

    Votes: 1 2.6%
  • masters

    Votes: 4 10.5%
  • I just dont know

    Votes: 5 13.2%
  • Other answer

    Votes: 5 13.2%

  • Total voters
    38

gb93433

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I haven't a clue what "grade" means. Either it is English or it isn't English, There is no inbetween. So far as school grades are concerned, some in Level 6 are completing first year university, whilst others are trying to maintain the basics of English.
In the U.S. at the end of grade 12 a university bound student can go to the university. Grade eight is when a student goes onto high school. It is the end of elementary school.
 

Rippon

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Grade eight is when a student goes onto high school. It is the end of elementary school.

What part of the nation are you from? In my neck of the woods at the conclusion of grade 6 a student enters Junior High School. Upon completion of grade 8 one enters Senior High.
 

EdSutton

New Member
Rippon, I did not doubt your testimony, elsewhere.

However, I did not expect that I would ever personally encounter "Exhibit 'A'." along the way, either. :tear:

Ed
 

Rippon

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Rippon, I did not doubt your testimony, elsewhere.

However, I did not expect to personally encounter "Exhibit 'A'." along the way, either. :tear:

Ed

Will you please provide a little context? I have no idea what you are referencing.
 

EdSutton

New Member
If there hadn't been a personal attack, it wouldn't have been "snipped".
I can understand how the Moderator might have seen my response as such, with only a short glance.

However, remark was directed at no one individual, but rather the general point of thread, and the contraction of "let's" is that of the collective "let us" with the collective "us" being inclusive of all, thus including poster along with every other individual. Ergo, if statement is 'personal', it is also a self-directed attack and a self-inclusive one as well.

BTW, "let us" is the ONLY definition for "let's" and I'm fairly sure that "ONLY" is a word used on this forum for which the definition is very well known.

While it has been more than 50 years since I was in the 5th grade, I'm still fairly certain that we had covered the definition of both "only" and "let's" long before I was 'promoted' to the 6th grade.

[Sigh!]

Ed
 

Baptist4life

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I can understand how the Moderator might have seen my response as such, with only a short glance.

However, remark was directed at no one individual, but rather the general point of thread, and the contraction of "let's" is that of the collective "let us" with the collective "us" being inclusive of all, thus including poster along with every other individual. Ergo, if statement is 'personal', it is also a self-directed attack and a self-inclusive one as well.

BTW, "let us" is the ONLY definition for "let's" and I'm fairly sure that "ONLY" is a word used on this forum for which the definition is very well known.

While it has been more than 50 years since I was in the 5th grade, I'm still fairly certain that we had covered the definition of both "only" and "let's" long before I was 'promoted' to the 6th grade.

[Sigh!]

Ed

I don't know......................been so long ago I don't remember what you even posted! :smilewinkgrin:
 

franklinmonroe

Active Member
What grade level do you think the King James Version was written on? ...
Some prophets & apostles were "unlearned" (perhaps like Amos, or Peter) while others were highly educated (Moses, Paul), but all were attempting to write on an 'adult' level. This should certainly result in different (in modern terms) 'graded' reading levels from book to book (and maybe in some cases, even within a book).

Should a translation attempt to 'even out' the reading levels across the entire canon? If so, should they always 'raise' all the books to meet the highest literary level, 'lower' all the writings to lowest-common-denominator, or seek some middle ground (average)? Would elavating the ancient words of God be 'adding' to the Bible? Would simplifying the original reading of God words be 'taking away' content from the Scriptures?
 

gb93433

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What part of the nation are you from? In my neck of the woods at the conclusion of grade 6 a student enters Junior High School. Upon completion of grade 8 one enters Senior High.
Some schools start junior high in 6th and some 7th, and some end at 8th and some and at 9th. Some districts do not have a junior high. Some have an elementary school that ends at 8th.

Some of the more progressive schools in larger schooll distose students typically do better.
 

EdSutton

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Some prophets & apostles were "unlearned" (perhaps like Amos, or Peter) while others were highly educated (Moses, Paul), but all were attempting to write on an 'adult' level. This should certainly result in different (in modern terms) 'graded' reading levels from book to book (and maybe in some cases, even within a book).

Should a translation attempt to 'even out' the reading levels across the entire canon? If so, should they always 'raise' all the books to meet the highest literary level, 'lower' all the writings to lowest-common-denominator, or seek some middle ground (average)? Would elavating [sic] the ancient words of God be 'adding' to the Bible? Would simplifying the original reading of God words be 'taking away' content from the Scriptures?
Since "All Scripture is 'God-breathed-out'" (II Tim. 3:16) and "holy men spoke" under the direct inspiration and leading of the Holy Spirit (II Pet. 1:16-21), I wonder if some (not you, franklinmonroe, by any stretch here) also consider the triune God as 'unlearned' as well? :tear:

Ed
 
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gb93433

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Huh, come again? What is/are "schooll distose"?
I should have written

Some schools start junior high in 6th and some 7th, and some end at 8th and some and at 9th. Some districts do not have a junior high. Some have an elementary school that ends at 8th.

Some of the more progressive schools in larger school districts have students who stay in junior high school until 9th grade because they typically do better when they enter high school as sophomore rather than as a freshman.
 
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