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HCSB - Bible Translation: Navigating the Horizons in Bible Translations is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Genesis 3:1 the serpent asked the woman, "Did God really say, 'You can't eat from any tree in the garden'?" What has God really said? Before we can obey Him, we must know what He has said. The Psalmist prayed twice in his affliction, "Give me life through Your word" (Ps 119:25, 107). When Jesus was afflicted by the Devil in the wilderness (Mt 4:1-11), He defended Himself with the sword of the...

Thiselton points out that we and the biblical texts and authors occupy two horizons. Moses, Elijah, David, Jeremiah, and each of the apostles were limited by their own horizons. And we can understand what they wrote and said only to the extent that we understand their world and culture—the world of the text—in addition to their language. We might also think of John R. W. Stott’s 1982 book, Between Two Worlds: The Art of Preaching in the Twentieth Century.2 While clearly having a different purpose