I’ve read ESV & NKJV cover to cover and most of an LSB. Also the NT in an NLT. Nothing compares to my KJV. The LSB isn’t bad, but I still have to have my KJV side by side to compare text. These modern versions seem to dilute references to Christ’s Deity in many places. Pretty sad to be honest. They are translated from corrupt manuscripts IMO
The best tip for reading the kjv is to either immerse yourself in 400 year old English and make it your native language, or else read a modern English translation like the nkjv.
Really appreciate your review. I wore out my first copy, the pages had plenty of time on them but the leather only gets better with time, ordered another and sending the former to the church library
You should use Anki for vocab, and get the entire vocab for a book memorized before even tackling it. That way your only focus is getting the syntax down. If you sit down and get focused for like an hour and a half or so, you can grind out 50 new words. You may not remember all of them the following day, but your retention will still be solid.
Dane, Reformed Baptist here, hailing from Minnesota. This video is excellent. I've had my nose in the Puritans for about 15 years. I think most anything by Watson, Brooks, Boston, and Sibbs are very accessible and good to start with. Personally, my absolute favorite is Owen. I know he's not the easiest to read, but I think nearly everything in the first 7 volumes of his works is some of the most glorious things that pen has but to paper. I think his best work is The Person of Christ. I have read it multiple times and will return to it many more times.
Nothing but KJV for the first thirty years... got my first one from my earthly father in 1971... William Collins, Sons 1959 Edition ... bright Red Letter Edition... Iona clear type... it needs recovering... if one just uses the inter-column references it becomes clear. Got an NKJV at the 30 year mark. Like reading 8th grade American English! I now use the ESV and a CSB ... it is all good.
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I disagree that it's pedagogy at the root of not being able to "read" the ancient Greek after a few years of study. I mean you would have the same with REAL texts with the natural method. Yes, I have a PhD in classical languages, was taught in the traditional method, have been doing Greek for twenty five years, and have been doing spoken ancient Greek for the past two years. I also can speak and read modern languages, such as Japanese, and it just takes time. I still struggle with reading texts despite all this, and I have taught it for decades. Students struggle with Greek (and Japanese). They are harder. I wonder how many classes of "normal" undergraduates he's taught. He mentions he "doesn't believe" that the language is any more challenging than other languages. He's also looking at the BEST students of the language when he talks about those chats. I have friends who have studied both language as living ones for years, and they still struggle with challenging prose texts. And, I can read koine NT Greek pretty easily with the old grammar method decades ago.
Hope you can watch the I John 5:7 debate Saturday night at 'Standing for Truth' April 20th, 8pm. Let me know if your page accepts the link and I will send it. Blessings.
This video is spot on. The argument that "Ancient Greek is just too complicated" is absurd. It's just a language like any other. Not only that, it was the lingua franca of the Roman Empire. Tons of normal people learned it, including stupid people. Most learned it as their second language, many learned it as their 3rd or 4th language. Most of these people couldn't even read, much less study grammar rules. Same goes for Latin. You're absolutely right that the problem is pedagogy. The reason people struggle with the typical methods is because those methods don't work.
If modern greek is your mother tongue or if you achieve a mother tongue level of modern greek, then you might get at least some elementary fluency in ancient greek if you study a lot of ancient greek and have fluency as your target. Possibly not the only way of achieving this but definitely one that is checked. The most interesting thing is that after studying ancient greek for some years the phrases that indicate the onset of fluency emerge naturaly i.e. instead of saying something in modern greek you just find yourself quite amused to having said that in ancient greek.
That font is difficult for me to read, im sure it's not too bad with a little practice. I wonder if this font is available in a modern computer format so that we can create practice text to practice with. hmmm...
I'm from Brasil, and of course English is my second language. In here the Trinitarian Bible Society is responsible for the Almeida Corrigida Fiel, which is on the same field of the KJV, only in portuguese. Revising my collection of books and bibles to put in a new shelf i got as a gift it gave me joy to find a KJV gifted to my father in 89. I'm restoring it now (the cover was a mess because of the time) and I'm very glad, because it would be very expensive to buy one from Amazon BR. I kind of stutter a litlle in reading it, but nothing major. Thanks for the tips! It will be of great help once the restoration is done! Peace to all of you!
Just add a Greek Keyboard in the settings of the computer. They roughly follow their equivalents in the English keyboard, so it just takes a little playing around with it to get used to typing in Greek.
I don't recall the specifics at this point, but there were a couple of places where I claimed the NKJV was not translating from the TR when it actually was, it was simply employing a different translation philosophy at those points.
Puritan Theology is a large work by Joel Beeke and Mark Jones that systematically covers the theology of the puritans, with chapters on all the major loci of theology. Puritan Reformed Theology is a collection of Joel Beeke's essays on various topics.
It is hard to develop fluency in a literary language. You can become fluent in modern Greek. Remember in ancient Greek you are dealing with texts from about 700bce to 200ce. That is 900 years. There is a lot of variation in the textual material.
To learn Ancient Greek and Latin first you should learn Illyrian and Pellazgian languages. The reason is that: Both languages mention above are based on the Illyrian and Pellasgian languages (Albanian) today) as the first one. On Greece and Italy majority of ancient populations were Albanian. As per that reason both Greek and Latin are build of a grammar which is a combination of Illyrian Pellasgian and Hellenic. Also with Latin (Etruscian).
