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Monday, May 25, 2026
No Worse Than Any Other III: Luke 22:43-44
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Continuing our examination of the textual basis for a number of Bible translations, we saw last time that the English Standard Version uses ...
Monday, May 18, 2026
No Worse Than Any Other II: Mark 16:9-20
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One of the common complaints that I hear about the King James Version is how poor its textual basis is. That is true. The textual basis of m...
Monday, May 11, 2026
No Worse Than Any Other I: Leviticus 4:16
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I am often asked to recommend my favorite Bible translation. I usually disappoint my interlocutors by telling them that the King James Versi...
Monday, January 12, 2026
Jeffrey R. Holland (1940-2025)
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I have known Jeffrey R. Holland for over two-thirds of my life, and just over half of his. It is hard to express what a good friend he has b...
Saturday, March 22, 2025
Kenneth A. Kitchen (1932-2025)
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I note with sadness the passing of Kenneth Kitchen, an extraordinary Egyptologist and individual. Kitchen was phenomenally prolific, an into...
Friday, March 14, 2025
Marcel Sigrist (1940-2024)
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I sadly just learned about the death of the notable Sumerologist, Marcel Sigrist. Sigrist was one of my professors in graduate school. Sigri...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Bezalel Porten (1931-2025)
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I was saddened to hear today of the passing of Bezalel (Buzzy) Porten. I first encountered Porten's work in a very early article that he...
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