Musings: A Continuing Series of Comments on Specific Translation Issues within the International Standard Version New Testament

by Dr. David Alan Black

"So great is the force of established usage that even acknowledged corruptions please the greater part, for they prefer to have their copies pretty rather than accurate."

Jerome

Dr. David Alan Black
Associate Editor, ISV NT

• Introductory Thoughts...

• The Poetry of the International Standard Version

• Too Much Lettuce? (Hebrews 12:1-2)

• "Press on" or "Be Carried Along"? (Hebrews 6:1)

• Good Giving (James 1:17)?

• Good Citizens (Philippians 1:27-30)

• Can Faith Save? (James 2:14)

• On Poets & Liars: When is Poetry Poetry? (Titus 1:12)

• An Ode to Love (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)

• The Disciple Whom Jesus Kept on Loving

• "Teachable" or "Able to Teach" (1 Timothy 3:2)

• Sloppy Agape (John 21:15-17)

• Mustering the Mystery out of Musterion

• Alliteration in the Bible (Hebrews 1:1)

• Whom Sweet Whom (John 18:4)

• Concluding Thoughts (John 3:16)