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Christopher Noel Boggess | PentecostalTheology.com
What do you think of this version
What are the plus and minuses
Varnel Watson
Thanks for the post. I have some general impressions before getting to the greek details. First off its quite new to be criticized in detail and much more needs to be done in the text.
Second, who made it? It is hard to surf their website to the actual team of people who did it. Did they have the proper education and so on. There is a fb group to connect with them but its closed.
Then, who has recognized it? Is it in any major Bible softwares so far?
“Modern Literal Version” plans to be ERROR-FREE but I am reading through their website over and over and still cant figure if they used TR or NA/UBS
So lets start there – who made it and from what koine greek source ?
Christopher Noel Boggess
Members of the church of christ worked on this i dont know if all of them were but the man guy that worked on this was in fact church of christ good friend of mine at one point
Varnel Watson
This is what I found copyright 1999, 2014 by G. Allen Walker for the MLV New Testament Committee. It is also self published so far because Amazon or Lulu Publishers limits them to 728 pages
Christopher Noel Boggess
Ill go through my friendlist find one of the guys that worked on this
Varnel Watson
Unfortunately G. Allen Walker is not in the MLV fb group to be invited here for the discussion He will be more essential for the conversation but anyone else would do as well I guess
Christopher Noel Boggess
Christopher Noel Boggess
This is one of the main guys quess he removed me when i went on my rant about what wrong with the coc
Varnel Watson
Bring Bro. Butch in the group so we can talk with him
Christopher Noel Boggess
I will try
Varnel Watson
He is the pc tech though We need an actual translator
Christopher Noel Boggess
O ok
Christopher Noel Boggess
He wont come in here if we discuss coc doctrine but if we just stick to question concerning this bible he will
Varnel Watson
Well if it even matter what they say Why the Byzantine Majority Text? They obviously followed Textus Receptus. The only question is which one of the many Textus receptuses out there. So enough said – it will never be accepted as a scholarly translation in my opinion
Christopher Noel Boggess
Agree
Christopher Noel Boggess
Just like the rest of the versions including kjv is only to fit there belief i lean more on greek text and hebrew
Varnel Watson
In 2017, it was decided to review the MLV all the way through to make sure the Greek translation was correct and make sure nothing had
been overlooked. Much to our surprise (and disappointment) we had missed translating multiple words; we had made ‘shorter is better’ mistakes
ourselves. – I would like to know what were these 2 places and then we can look into other critical cases and how they dealt with them. I see they butchered Mk 16 already Am I reading correctly on their website they will never publish their Greek references or are there Greek footnotes in the printed edition?
Christopher Noel Boggess
Interesting !
Christopher Noel Boggess
Add me ill add you to my mlt groups
Varnel Watson
any word from the translators?
Varnel Watson
MEV vs MLV? How could anyone do literal from TR?
Ray E Horton
I like the MEV! Not familiar with the MLV- it’s not on Gateway.
Varnel Watson
The Modern English Version (MEV) is an English translation of the Bible begun in 2005 and completed in 2014. The work was edited by James F. Linzey, and is an update of the King James Version (KJV), re-translated from the Masoretic Text and the Textus Receptus. The fact that KJV was used and updated or revised was good. But using TR AGAIN can only lead to more errors. What did the KJV translators missed so Linzey and plead others have had to revise KJV so many multiple times? And which TR did he chose – certainly an updated TR and not the original TR the KJV translators used right?