Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>]

At 11:12 AM 1/5/2005, you wrote:

> Please name any English version which is in fact a paraphrase, i.e. an 
> adaptation of a previous text in the same language, rather than a 
> translation, i.e. based on the original language texts - and which does 
> not call itself a paraphrase as the Living Bible does. I know that it has 
> been alleged that the King James Version and the New World Translation 
> were in fact based only on previous English versions, but this certainly 
> not entirely true.

It is in fact completely and entirely true.

Best

Jim



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