Dr. John M. AsquithJun 22, 20173 minWhere the Word of A King Is Part IIn these next few blog posts I will continue to put snippets of what will eventually become a book. The King James Bible is irrevocably ...
Dr. John M. AsquithJun 21, 20177 minEngland and the Wycliffe Bible Part IVWycliffe started a revolution. Wycliffe dared to publish not just a bible in the English tongue; he published a bible in its bare text. ...
Dr. John M. AsquithJun 20, 20177 minEngland And the Wycliffe Bible Part IIIWe will never really know how many different Wycliffe Bibles were ultimately translated since they were burned publicly and as often as t...
Dr. John M. AsquithJun 20, 20175 minEngland And the Wycliffe Bible Part IIThe Latin Bible shares a common characteristic with the Greek Bible and today’s English Bibles. There were two competing strains scattere...
Dr. John M. AsquithJun 20, 20175 minEngland and the Wycliffe Bible Part IOver the next several posts I will be putting extracts from an upcoming book on the King James Bible. England, England, England, what do w...
Dr. John M. AsquithJun 13, 20172 minWhen Did the Oxford and Cambridge Texts Diverge?In 2008 I began to take a closer look at the differences between the Oxford and Cambridge Texts of the King James Bible. I had long know...
Dr. John M. AsquithMay 31, 20172 minA Hopeful EventFor some time I have decried the lack of any serious bible printer who was willing to print the Cambridge Bible as AW Pollard edited it 1...
Dr. John M. AsquithMay 19, 20173 minThe 1873 Cambridge Paragraph Bible, Forerunner to the RV. Part IIThere are very few things that have undermined the foundations of English speaking culture more radically and effectively than the publis...
Dr. John M. AsquithMay 8, 20172 minThe 1873 Cambridge Paragraph Bible, Forerunner to the RV. Part IIt seems strange to introduce the 5th purification of the King James Bible as a forerunner to the Revised Version of 1888. The 1873 Camb...
Dr. John M. AsquithMay 4, 20173 minThe Next 100 Years Part IIWe can now say with some certainty due to Joey Faust's excellent book The Word: God Will Keep It, that the English speaking public regard...
Dr. John M. AsquithApr 27, 20172 minThe Next 100 Years Part IThe 100 years that followed the introduction of Benjamin Blayney's fine editorial work were productive years for the English speaking peo...
Dr. John M. AsquithApr 20, 20172 minThe 1769 Blayney EditionWhen the 1762 Parris Edition was released by Cambridge the Clarendon Press (Oxford's printing arm) realized that their century long domin...
Dr. John M. AsquithApr 14, 20172 minA Book Review- The Word: God Will Keep ItPastor and Author Joey Faust has written one of the most fascinating and helpful books about the King James Bible that I have read in a l...
Dr. John M. AsquithApr 4, 20173 minThe 1762 Parris Edition Part IIF. S. Parris was probably the last editor to have extensive access to the translators' private copies of the original King James Manuscri...
Dr. John M. AsquithMar 28, 20172 minThe 1762 Parris Edition Part IWe looked at the needed change in orthography in my last post. We saw that a modern Cambridge Bible is different from a 17th century Kin...
Dr. John M. AsquithMar 23, 20172 minA needed change in OrthographyWhat we see above is Genesis 14:15 from an authentic original 1611 Bible. Now we will look at that same verse in the Pure Cambridge Tex...
Dr. John M. AsquithMar 15, 20174 minThe 1638 Cambridge BibleOne of the great and notable improvements made in this version was the use of italics. Italics are an added burden to a printer. Not on...
Dr. John M. AsquithMar 9, 20173 min1638 and BeyondIn order to understand the Cambridge Bible of 1638 and its effect upon England it is necessary to understand some background to England a...
Dr. John M. AsquithMar 7, 20174 minEnter Cambridge Part IIWhen The Cambridge University Press finally overcame the stiff resistance that it had encountered from the London printers and printed it...
Dr. John M. AsquithMar 5, 20175 minBefore getting to Cambridge Part IIFor those of us who believe in divine intervention in the affairs of men, the issue of whether or not God helped preserve the word of God...
