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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's a great work of literature, but it is not (by current standards) a good translation at all. Not only is current knowledge of Biblical Hebrew and Greek far advanced over the state of the art 400 years ago, but the KJV translators were working from very poor quality source material.
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No disagreement on this at all. Altho, I could've sworn I already said something like "As science stands on the shoulders of those who came before, so does the art and science of translation." Did you somehow get the feeling I was denying that translation quality had advanced in modern times?
Alter's point, and mine, was about the beauty and the impact of the translation, not its claim to absolute fidelity or use of the latest manuscripts. My original post already acknowledges the KJV has numerous mistakes.