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The topics covered in this volume, embracing both Old and New Testaments, range from detailed studies, such as how a particular Biblical verse might be rendered from Hebrew or Greek, to larger philosophical and hermeneutical issues — the importance of tradition; how translations come to be canonized; and how a modern translation can and should be evaluated. The value of this topical and highly...

means as insufficient (note the comments about the uniqueness of the CEV above).53 This claim would be contradicted, however, by their own attempt to position the CEV as following the same translational agenda as the KJV/AV. . In a surprising admission in the light of the above, the translators of the CEV as much as admit that the CEV is not the Bible for every purpose. Taking up statements from the translators of the KJV/AV, the translators of the
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