Modern translations differ from the King James Version in many ways. These differences arise for two reasons: 1. translation philosophy and 2. the Greek New Testament editions the translators used. The KJV is an English translation of the Textus Receptus. What if the KJV used the Critical Greek Text like most modern translations?The Parallel KJV New Testament allows readers to compare the two major New Testament manuscript traditions and see how they inform English transla...

While the King James Version of the Bible shaped the English language, modern English is not the English of the 1600s. Pick up a King James Bible, and it's easy to spot words we don't use anymore--from beeves and bolled to harts and hosen. But modern readers face the greater danger of "false friends"--words we think we know but don't.The KJV is filled with words that, because of language changes over four centuries, we don't realize we're misunde...

The story of how a boy came to be infected with blood borne viruses, and in spite of multiple death sentences, lived to become the world's first ever LGBTQ+ Ambassador for Haemophilia.'Faced daily with my own mortality, I chose to live fabulously—each of my fifty-five years has been full of love, laughter, adventure… and feather boas.'Mark Ward is the founder of Haemosexual—an online support and information resource championing equality, education and better healthcare for ...

Does the Septuagint have authority for the church today?Numerous scholars have explored what the Septuagint is and its history and uses, but less scholarship has engaged with the ways it exercises authority within the Christian tradition. In the first multicontributor volume of its kind, biblical scholars Greg Lanier and Will Ross bring together experts from a variety of disciplines to explore the nature of the Septuagint's authority over the ages.Discover ...

Have you ever given out a gospel tract and wondered if it did any good? Now you can find out! This book is an amazing collection of 151 stories of men and women from 70 countries who found Christ by reading gospel literature. These fascinating stories will encourage and challenge you to share the gospel with others. This book also addresses such vital questions as what tract distribution methods are most effective and what types of gospel literature generate the most response.

The old gospel song invited listeners to turn their radios on and hear the . . . music in the air.Now return to the eventful days when Americans could “turn the lights down low and listen to the Master’s radio” through this colorful and inspiring history of Christian music and ministry during the golden age of gospel radio. Learn the stories behind such legendary groups as Blackwood Brothers, Statesmen, Gaithers, Back to the Bible Quartet, Old Fashioned Revival Hour Quartet, Haven ...

Birdwatching is among the most popular hobbies in Britain and can be done on your doorstep.RSPB Pocket Garden Birdwatch contains expert advice on creating a bird-friendly environment by providing water, food, and nesting sites. It also reveals essential tips on observing birds, including the basic equipment needed.In this bird book, you will find:The top 40 British garden birds, each illustrated with photography, which...

Winner of the Religious Communication Association Edited Volume of the Year Award (2024) and the Religious Communication Association Book Chapter of the Year Award (2024).God Talk: The Problem of Divine-Human Communication is a landmark publication, the first book to address the problem from the perspective of communication studies. In ten thought-provoking essays, communication scholars confront the "God Problem" by describing diverse approaches they have...

In Inside Evangelicalism, Mark Ward Sr. combines ethnographic, autoethnographic, and sociolinguistic research to identify and analyze white evangelicals' distinctive culture and speech code from a perspective rooted deeply in both communication studies and the evangelical community. The Bible emerges as evangelicalism's one dominant symbol that unifies all meaning and divides the world into a cosmic dualism between secular humanism and an all-encompassing “biblical worldview.” The...

Whenever and wherever people communicate, they contend with powerful and sometimes hidden systems of symbols, meanings, premises, and rules pertaining to communicative conduct, i.e, speech codes.Adding to thirty years of cultural communication research, this ground-breaking volume presents readers with a new set of original, fieldwork-based case studies that examine speech codes in on- and offline settings around the world. Most importantly, Contending with Codes in a World of D...

In Communicated Stereotypes at Work, the editors and contributors posit that stereotypes communicated in the workplace remain a pervasive issue due to the dichotomy between the discriminatory and functional roles that these stereotypes can play in a range of professional settings. Contributors demonstrate that while the use of stereotypes in the workplace is distasteful and exclusionary, communicating these stereotypes can also appear-on the surface-to provide a pathway toward bon...

The King James Version has shaped the church, our worship, and our mother tongue for over 400 years. But what should we do with it today?The KJV beautifully rendered the Scriptures into the language of turn-of-the-seventeenth-century England. Even today the King James is the most widely read Bible in the United States. The rich cadence of its Elizabethan English is recognized even by non-Christians. But English has changed a great deal over the last 400 years, and ...