I am going to make a few quotes from Jensen's Survey of the Old Testament. The book is copyrighted and I will only quote small parts in order to meet the fair-copyright laws.
Different paragraphs will indicate skipping information that is not related. My notes are in bold.
"The first translation of any portion of the Old Testament was the Greek Septuagint (LXX). It was made for the benefit of Greek speaking Jews of Alexandria, who could not read Hebrew."
Isn't Alexandria, interesting? If you think that is interesting, read this:
"It must have been a very dependable translation, for out of thirty-seven Old Testament quotations credited to Jesus in the gospels, thirty-three are from this Sepuagint version."
For those KJVo's who like to claim hundreds of years:
" The Latin Vulgate (A.D. 383-405), the most prominent, was the official Bible of Christendom on the Continent for a thousand years.
The Reformation brought a revival of translation activity, spurred on by renewed interest in Hebrew and Greek Bible manuscripts, and by the recent invention of the printing press. These were the years when the famous early English versions were appearing, such as Wycliffe, Tyndale, Coverdale, Great Bible, Bishops, King James."
You know, those "perfect" English Bibles replaced by the "perfect" KJV since there was a perfect Bible for every generation. I just cannot figure out why a new perfect version had to be made.
"Then came the modern missions era of translation activity, beginning around 1800. It is aptly called modern because the era has not yet ended. In fact, one of the brightest aspects of the Christian witness today is the unprecedented production of new Bible translations. Portions of Scripture are reaching people of many languages and cultures in the remotest parts of the world. And in America, new English English versions and paraphrases, written in contemporary style, are geared to such needy mission fields as homes without a church, and campuses with drifting youth. For the serious Bible student today who wants to analyze a Bible text which is virtually the same as the originals minus the translation factor, various excellent versions are available, such as the American Standard Version (ASV of 1901), the New American Standard Bible (NASB of 1971), and the New International Version (NIV of 1978)."
Now comes the fun part:
"And the most thrilling part of it is that, not counting translation difference, "We hold in our hands to-day a Bible which differs in no substantial particular from the originals of the various books as they came from the hands of their authors."
Just thought I might stir up a little debate
Different paragraphs will indicate skipping information that is not related. My notes are in bold.
"The first translation of any portion of the Old Testament was the Greek Septuagint (LXX). It was made for the benefit of Greek speaking Jews of Alexandria, who could not read Hebrew."
Isn't Alexandria, interesting? If you think that is interesting, read this:
"It must have been a very dependable translation, for out of thirty-seven Old Testament quotations credited to Jesus in the gospels, thirty-three are from this Sepuagint version."
For those KJVo's who like to claim hundreds of years:
" The Latin Vulgate (A.D. 383-405), the most prominent, was the official Bible of Christendom on the Continent for a thousand years.
The Reformation brought a revival of translation activity, spurred on by renewed interest in Hebrew and Greek Bible manuscripts, and by the recent invention of the printing press. These were the years when the famous early English versions were appearing, such as Wycliffe, Tyndale, Coverdale, Great Bible, Bishops, King James."
You know, those "perfect" English Bibles replaced by the "perfect" KJV since there was a perfect Bible for every generation. I just cannot figure out why a new perfect version had to be made.
"Then came the modern missions era of translation activity, beginning around 1800. It is aptly called modern because the era has not yet ended. In fact, one of the brightest aspects of the Christian witness today is the unprecedented production of new Bible translations. Portions of Scripture are reaching people of many languages and cultures in the remotest parts of the world. And in America, new English English versions and paraphrases, written in contemporary style, are geared to such needy mission fields as homes without a church, and campuses with drifting youth. For the serious Bible student today who wants to analyze a Bible text which is virtually the same as the originals minus the translation factor, various excellent versions are available, such as the American Standard Version (ASV of 1901), the New American Standard Bible (NASB of 1971), and the New International Version (NIV of 1978)."
Now comes the fun part:
"And the most thrilling part of it is that, not counting translation difference, "We hold in our hands to-day a Bible which differs in no substantial particular from the originals of the various books as they came from the hands of their authors."
Just thought I might stir up a little debate
