(July 5, 2017 at 12:45 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(July 4, 2017 at 10:45 pm)Brakeman Wrote: Have any of the christian fans of the king James bible ever bother to read the "author's" other works?
His demonologie was quite illuminating.
The 1611 KJV follows the original 692 Bible.
There is some dispute on that.....( he said politely.)
http://newlife.id.au/7-things-about-the-...mes-bible/
Quote:4. The translators of the KJV 1611 were untrained in Koine Greek.
Koine (“common”) Greek is the original language of the New Testament. Koine Greek had been a dead language for over a thousand years when the KJV was published for the first time in 1611. The KJV translators of the New Testament were scholars of Classical Greek, but they didn’t even know what Koine Greek was. Some believed that the Greek language of the NT was a unique, Spirit-inspired dialect.[5] It was not until the late 1800s and early 1900s, when tens of thousands of papyri documents were discovered, many written in Koine, that we could begin to understand the language more fully.[6] Unlike the translators of the KJV, modern translators of the New Testament are scholars of Koine Greek.
(5) The KJV translation of the NT is based on relatively recent Greek manuscripts.As well as relying on previous English translations, the 1611 edition of the KJV relied on critically edited Greek texts that were “for the most part based on about half a dozen very late manuscripts (none earlier than the 12th century AD).”[7] The Greek texts included five printed editions of the Greek New Testament by Erasmus,[8] as well as Robert Estienne’s (a.k.a. ‘Stephanus’) edition (1550) and Theodore Beza’s edition (1598). Unfortunately, one of the manuscripts Estienne and Beza used for their Greek editions contained a few “corrections” that downplayed the importance of women in the church.[9]
(6) The early editions of the KJV are not based on the Received Text.Many KJV advocates claim that the KJV was translated from a Greek text known as the Textus Receptus (TR) and that the TR is especially accurate and inspired. However, the TR did not exist in 1611 when the first King James Bible was published. The first TR was written in 1633. The current version of the TR was produced in 1894 by Scrivener. Conversely, most modern translations of the New Testament are based on critical Greek texts which take into account much more ancient and much less handled Greek manuscripts. A few of these Greek manuscripts date from as early as the third century.