The cipher designer who began it in 1994, the program he says drafted it from the American Standard in fifteen minutes, why nobody owns it, and a Greek text that neither the King James nor the American Standard was made from.
The Bible's word for repent is two words: shuv in the Hebrew of the Old Testament, a turning back, and metanoia in the Greek of the New, a change of mind. Here is what each means, where each stands, and what they say repentance is.
The Hebrew word chesed stands 248 times in the Old Testament, and no single English word holds it. Here is where it stands, and what the translations call it.
The Americans who revised the Bible with the English and were refused a vote, the fourteen years they agreed to wait, why their Bible says Jehovah, and the page a North Carolina preacher burned from its successor.
Revelation 2 and 3 carry seven letters to seven real cities on one Roman road in western Asia Minor. This article walks that road from Patmos round the loop and home, and sets each letter beside what its city was in John's day: its ground, its history, its trade and its pressures.
This is a rewrite of a sermon by Edward Heppenstall, True Christianity, preserved in a recording several decades old. The scripture he read is quoted here from the reader's own Bible and the passages he alluded to are linked.
The manuscripts Erasmus actually had at Basel, the last verses of Revelation he wrote himself out of Latin, the promise about 1 John he never made, and why the Received Text sold today was made backward out of an English Bible.
The forged letter that named it, the seventy-two translators who were never in separate cells, the corrections that began before Christianity, and why the critical edition is still unfinished after a hundred and eighteen years.
The exiles who made it, the page design every English Bible copied afterwards, the notes King James complained of, the ban that never existed, and why the 1599 edition sold today is not the 1599 edition.
The scribes of Tiberias who counted every letter of the Bible, the vowel points that started a war among Protestants, the crown of Aleppo and its missing two fifths, and why your Old Testament rests on a manuscript written at Cairo in 1008.
The alias he took his degrees under, the press stopped mid-run at Cologne, the six words he fought Thomas More over, the friend who betrayed him at Antwerp, and how much of the King James is really his.
Why James I ordered it in 1604, the fifty-four men who made it, what it took from Tyndale, and why the King James you own is the 1769 text, not 1611.
Why Jesus answers a question about yeast by making the disciples count baskets — and how the two feedings, the Syrophoenician woman, and the widow of Zarephath all trace one thread about scarcity, exclusion, and abundance.
What 666 actually means in the Greek text of Revelation, why the popular Nero-cipher explanation is weaker than usually presented, and why the strongest clue to its meaning points not to imperial Rome but to Solomon's gold in 1 Kings.
A Christocentric, historicist reading of Revelation, tracing how divine forbearance until the measure is full binds together the Lamb's guidance of history, the war over God's character, the two marks, the two cities, and the vindication of God's justice.
A Disciplined Method for Reading Revelation Historically