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How to Choose a Bible Version: An Introductory Guide to English Translations is unavailable, but you can change that!

With so many versions of the Bible available today it’s hard to know which one to use. How to Choose a Bible Version provides an introduction to each modern translation and gives historical information how each version was translated. This helpful resource also features a chart depicting each translation’s place on a continuum between literal word-for-word translations and loosely translated...

Broadly speaking, from a historical standpoint, two categories of English translations exist. One category consists of those works that fall within the mainline tradition of the English-speaking church since the sixteenth century, the Tyndale tradition. The other category consists of a wide variety of translations that have no substantial underlying tradition. The work of John Wycliffe deserves initial
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