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Understanding The English Bible: A Comparative Analysis Of Four Bible Versions, Michael R. Coats Dec 2017

Understanding The English Bible: A Comparative Analysis Of Four Bible Versions, Michael R. Coats

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Scholarship pertaining to the Bible accounts for a great deal of research. A search for “the Bible” on just the University of Southern Mississippi Libraries website archive results in 549,075 hits, and specifying “English Bible versions” only reduces those results to 70,000. My largest difficulty in discussing the Bible lies not in finding a conversation but in finding which part of the conversation to enter. In the past fifty years, one of the largest emphases has been on using the best translation style for the Bible, a topic that has dominated the field of biblical scholarship (Ryken, Understanding 15). I …