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Darby Bible

The Darby Bible (DBY, formal title The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby) refers to the Bible as translated from Hebrew and Greek by John Nelson Darby. Darby published a translation of the New Testament in 1867, with revised editions in 1872 and 1884. After his death, some of his students produced an Old Testament translation based on Darby’s French and German translations (see below). The complete Darby Bible, including Darby’s 3rd edition New Testament and his students’ Old Testament, was first published in 1890.[1] – Wikepedia




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Evaluating Different Bibles by Literalness

Evaluating Different Bibles by Literalness

Evaluating Different Bibles by Literalness
By David Cox

This post is to help us get a focus on the difference between Bible versions. To get a focus on the subject of Bibles, we need to understand that there are different translation theories used in translating the Bible (or any literary work) from one language to another.




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