2010 Rna Annual Conference

Craig Blomberg, professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary. For several hundred years the King James Version of the Bible was the only major English-language translation of the book held sacred by nearly one third of the world’s population. Why has there been such a proliferation of translations in the last 50 years or so? Why do new translations, once they are published, get updated? In what ways are they updated? How do they address the particularly sensitive issues of gender, culture, and particularly memorable texts? What can we expect in 2011, the four-hundredth anniversary of the publication of the KJV? Blomberg, who has participated in four different translation projects over the last two decades will address these and related topics.