Mark Ward shows us, with a light but authoritative touch, that if we want the Bible to speak to us the way it did to those alive when it was written, we must adjust the vocabulary with meanings only scholars can make out-a revelation of a new kind. Tim Challies, author, blogger Just because you know all of the words in an old sentence of English doesn’t mean you know what they meant when they were written. It deals with a common issue in a helpful, humorous, and respectful way. John Frame, professor of systematic theology and philosophy emeritus, Reformed Theological Seminary Authorized is a little book that packs a punch.

The book is useful both for beginning Bible students and for linguists. Results 1 - 20 of 33418 Browse Christian Bibles for sale including the NIV, KJV. It is full of information about how language changes and doesn’t change, and full of wisdom about how Christians should respond to these processes. 58 Add to cart King James Bible: KJV Study Bible - Large Print hummingbird. Carson, research professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Mark Ward’s Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible is a cogent, concise, clear, and helpful book on the subject of Bible translations. Patiently, chapter by chapter, example by example, he makes his case-all of his work geared toward fostering more and better Bible reading. Ward does not pummel his readers or sneer at those who take another position. For those who are convinced of the superiority of the KJV, whether for stylistic, cultural, pedagogical, theological, or traditional reasons, this is the book to read. Praise for Authorized This lightly written and frequently amusing book gently hides the competent scholarship that underlies it. In their introduction to the King James Bible, the translators tell us that Christians must “heare CHRIST speaking unto them in their mother tongue.” In Authorized Mark Ward builds a case for the KJV translators’ view that English Bible translations should be readable by what they called “the very vulgar”-and what we would call “the man on the street.” In Authorized Mark Ward shows what exclusive readers of the KJV are missing as they read God’s word. But English has changed a great deal over the last 400 years-and in subtle ways that very few modern readers will recognize. The rich cadence of its Elizabethan English is recognized even by non-Christians.

Even today the King James is the most widely read Bible in the United States. The KJV beautifully rendered the Scriptures into the language of turn-of-the-seventeenth-century England. The King James Version has shaped the church, our worship, and our mother tongue for over 400 years.

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