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Is the KJV a literal, word-for-word English Bible translation?

John of Japan

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As long as I giving definitions, just to show I'm not out in left field about "reader response," here is Nida's own definition of DE:

“dynamic equivalence: quality of a translation in which the message of the original text has been so transported into the receptor language that the RESPONSE of the RECEPTOR is essentially like that of the original receptors. Frequently, the form of the original text is changed; but as long as the change follows the rules of back transformation in the source language, of contextual consistency in the transfer, and of transformation in the receptor language, the message is preserved and the translation is faithful. The opposite principle is FORMAL CORRESPONDENCE." (The Theory and Practice of Translation, by Eugene Nida and Charles Taber, 1982, p. 200.)
 
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