Modern
King James Version (MKJV)
By: Jay P. Green, Sr., Translator
Currently Out of Print
Scheduled to be reprinted in the Winter of 2006
Lord Willing and Funds Available
Family Radio has been reading the 1963 edition of the Modern
King James Version of the Bible on the air daily for 20 years. As the 1963
edition has been out of print for over 30 years, this is a much more readable
and improved edition of the same Bible.
The Modern King James Version of the Bible is an update of the
Authorized King James Version in today's English. Besides the language update,
it has these differences:
- Many older editions of the KJV have a center column in
which they suggest a better translation, many of these suggestions have now
been put into the text.
- The names of animals of the Bible have been corrected
according to scientific studies today;
- The titles to the Psalms and names of places have been
translated to their actual meaning rather than their original name, such as
Hor-hagidgad = The Hole in the Cleft.
- Those places which are incorrect have been changed (e.g.
'Passover' instead of 'Easter'; 'Joshua' instead of 'Jesus' in Hebrews 4;
'expanse' is replaced by 'firmament'; 'eunuch' for 'officer'; 'Let it not Be!'
for 'God forbid'; 'came into being' for 'made' in John 1:3);
- places where the King James Version paraphrases have been
replaced by a direct translation from the original;
- the Greek names for Old Testament characters are given the
same name as in the King James Version;
- money, titles, weights, etc. are translated as they are in
the original languages (e.g. denarius instead of penny).
The reviser has not thrust in words, nor left out words, in
order to establish some personal belief as to what the Bible ought to say. The
Modern King James Version can be easily understood in the pew when the speaker
is using the King James Version.
Flexible Genuine Leather Edition in verse format, Gold Edged,
Rounded Corners, 1,526 pages, Large Print Red Letter Edition I.S.B.N.
1-878442-70-8 $59.99 - Out of Print - Replaced by KJ3 - Literal Translation
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