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What is the King James Version?

Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman

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What's the Problem With the New Testament Translation?

King James is based on just a few manuscripts. For the New Testament, we have something like 5,600 manuscripts today. They include passages that weren't originally in the manuscripts and so a number of problems. In addition to words we don't know, it used words that we do know. These are known what a unicorn is and we know it doesn't exist but they're curious these things as if they didn't exist.

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