King James Only?

Blogging our way through the King James Only debate

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The KJV's worship in Matthew 15:9 narrows a richer Greek concept
When the King James Version renders Matthew 15:9 with the line "in vain they do worship me," it captures a fragment of what the Greek actually communicates.…
The KJV and the English Reformation's martyr tradition
The English Reformation produced a remarkable chain of Bible translations, each one built on the risks taken by scholars who printed English Scripture in a…
Modern Greek textbooks on the KJV's aorist tense renderings
The King James Only movement frequently claims that the 1611 translation captures every nuance of the original Hebrew and Greek, including the full force of…
The 1611 KJV title page and its disputed authority
The alleged scandal of the 1611 KJV’s title page calling it “appointed to be read in churches” rests on a phrase shorter than the historical argument built…
The King James Only movement and the KJV's errata list
In the early seventeenth century, London printers produced copies of a translation that would become the King James Version. The translation came from a…
From Erasmus to Elzevir: how the Textus Receptus emerged
The Textus Receptus was not delivered as a finished, perfectly uniform Greek New Testament. It developed through a sequence of printed editions produced…
Why the King James Bible uses meat for so many different words
When an Australian today picks up a King James Bible and reads that God gave every green herb "for meat," or that Paul fed the Corinthians with milk and not…
The Hades And Hell Distinction In The King James Bible
The distinction between Hades and hell is often treated as a decisive argument in debates about the King James Version. Some King James Only advocates claim…
Edward Hills And The King James Only Case Examined
Edward F. Hills occupies an unusual place in the history of King James Only thought. He was trained as a textual critic at Harvard and wrote as a conservative…
1 John 5:7 and the KJV’s disputed textual foundation
The wording of 1 John 5:7 in the King James Version is one of the clearest examples of how a translation can preserve a reading that has a complicated history.…