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Pat Robertson
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xscot mcknight
Just in case you haven’t heard what Pat Robertson said, or want to read a nice aggregation of responses, see this site at CT. HT: Bob Robinson. The issue for me is not whether he apologized or not (and his newest allusions to Bonhoeffer are more rationalization than apology), but what could be in Robertson…
My Teachers: College
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xscot mcknight
Choosing a college for a young man who grew up among fundamentalist Baptists, who had preachers come through annually to tell us that the Rapture would occur any day now and why it will end by 1973, was not an easy thing. I was an athlete who had a chance at a track scholarship until…
Translation: How does it work?
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xscot mcknight
There is no reason here to get involved in all the discussions that linguists and translation theorists get into today. Here are some thoughts we need to consider when we talk about why there are translations. First, the context of translation is that those who do so believe they are translating the Word of God.…
Picking a Translation
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xscot mcknight
I got a request from an e-mailer to blog on translations. This is the first one of such posts. There are a number of good translations available, and there are advocates for each one, and they use a variety of reasons for why they are advocates for one over another. I think there is a…
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