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In a comment on the previous post here John Hobbins suggested that I cross-post here my post at my own blog Literal Bible translations: crutches for bad teachers? This is perhaps slightly more controversial than I would normally have chosen to post here, but I think it meets the BBB guidelines. So here it is: [...]

I mentioned in a comment on my last post here that I had searched Bible Gateway for the word “OK” in several modern Bible translations, and found no results. For example, my search of The Message gives the following response: No results found. No results were found for ok in the version(s):The Message. Try refining [...]

Gary Simmons asked a question on the Share page: Alright, let’s get the ball rolling. Genesis 12:5 says that Abram left with his wife and all the nefesh they acquired in Haran. I can think of no particular reason as to why the author did not use anashim here. Why does it say nefesh? My [...]

There has been quite some discussion on various blogs over the post by Daniel Kirk (no relation of mine) suggesting that translations of Galatians 5:6 are “theologically manipulated”. First David Ker reported on it here at BBB. Then I posted about it on my own blog – and later corrected my post because I had [...]

There has been quite a lot of discussion on this blog in the past on 1 Corinthians 14:34-35, see for example this post. Basically two arguments have been put forward for not understanding it as literal teaching for women to be completely silent in church meetings. One is to understand that it cannot mean that [...]