The Word’s Gone Global: Exploring Bible Versions

The Word’s Gone Global, looks at Bible text (which early Islam trusted) and translation. It leads you through some basic textual critique towards establishing authentic text. The big issues are discerning the true text, and translating it truthfully for all people and people groups. What is the Eastern Orthodox Bible? What about the Vulgate? How did the Reformation affect text and translation, and why are Wycliffe, Tyndale, and Martin, big names? What were the origins of the New International Version, sniped at by both KJV and ESV advocates? Do those attacks prove it right, or wrong, or neither? Is it better than both? Is Don Carson more complementarian than Wayne Grudem? What are formal equivalence and functional equivalence? Are ‘literal’ and ‘essentially literal’ illusory, meaningless marketing hype? Which version or versions should you regularly read?

In English circles, Broughton wished to burn Bancroft’s King James Version (KJV), which Anglicanism promoted. Should we burn it today, or its rivals, or none? We look at the anti-anti-KJV pyromania of Gail Riplinger, and Peter Ruckman.

Grade Charts cover over 30 English versions, seeing how they handle big issues such as God’s name, the question of God’s son’s deity, marriage, the ‘sarx’ word, gender terms, avoidance of polytheism, and various issues in John’s Gospel (eg is ‘born again’ unbiblical; did John gives ‘the Jews’ bad press and disagree with the ‘Synoptics’ over Passover?).