tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-146183364287787287.post5286968134875733173..comments2024-01-24T23:01:01.168+10:00Comments on Painting Fakes: The ApocryphaJonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11272544252649766985noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-146183364287787287.post-44121087704325102412013-05-10T08:30:19.731+10:002013-05-10T08:30:19.731+10:00This is a great summary for dummies like me. Thank...This is a great summary for dummies like me. Thanks Jon. Look forward to reading more about your findings. It's a hard life trying to steer between fundamentalism and rejection.Bradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04986265660954928076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-146183364287787287.post-28256411896291917572013-05-05T16:38:08.014+10:002013-05-05T16:38:08.014+10:00Thankfully I think there's renewed interest in...Thankfully I think there's renewed interest in the Apocrypha (& LXX which faced similar distain in some circles), for example:<br /><br /><i>The English Standard Version Bible captures as far as possible the precise wording of the original biblical text and the personal style of each Bible writer, while taking into account differences of grammar, syntax, and idiom between current literary English and the original languages. The ESV thus provides an accurate rendering of the original texts that is in readable, high quality English prose and poetry. This Bible has been growing in popularity among students in biblical studies, mainline Christian scholars and clergy, and Evangelical Christians of all denominations.<br /><br />Along with that growth comes the need for the books of the Apocrypha to be included in ESV Bibles, both for denominations that use those books in liturgical readings and for students who need them for historical purposes. <b>More Evangelicals are also beginning to be interested in the Apocrypha</b>, even though they don't consider it God's Word. The English Standard Version Bible with the Apocrypha, for which the Apocrypha has been commissioned by Oxford University Press, employs the same methods and guidelines used by the original translators of the ESV, to produce for the first time an ESV Apocrypha. This will be the only ESV with Apocrypha available anywhere, and it includes all of the books and parts of books in the Protestant Apocrypha, the Catholic Old Testament, and the Old Testament as used in Orthodox Christian churches.</i><br /><br /><a rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/English-Standard-Version-Bible-Apocrypha/dp/0195289102</a>Alex Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03012828252900281919noreply@blogger.com