Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Preliminary Thoughts

Welcome to this blog which is dedicated to the discussion of the many English translations of the scriptures. My interest was first peaked in this topic as I studied the topic of Greek manuscripts and the New Testament. In my research, I unearthed the little-known fact that there are a plethora of English translations of the scriptures, i.e. no fewer than 300, which is the list that I have compiled. What is the point of all these translations? Why should we need so many?

It was these questions and others that I have been thinking about since I started to build up my Bible collections. I now have nearly 60 different English translations, and it grows, albeit by now slowly, as the days go by.

So that is what this is about, and really, I don't care if no one actually reads any of these entries. I just want a place to store all these thoughts.

Bye for now.