Washburn, L.K. – Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays


Is The Bible Worth Reading is simply 108 short quips and quotes on different subjects. Note the title of the work comes from the 1st of these sections, and the entire work deals very little or almost nothing with bibliology. The quotes cover all subjects related to Christianity.

Webster Bible Translation [Webster]

Noah Webster’s 1833 limited revision of the King James Bible focused mainly on replacing archaic words and making simple grammatical changes. For example: “why” instead of “wherefore”, “its” instead of “his” when referring to nonliving things, “male child” instead of “manchild”, etc. He also introduced euphemisms to remove words he found offensive: “whore” becomes “lewd woman”. Overall, very few changes were made, and the result is a book which is almost indistinguishable from the King James Bible. It has sometimes been called the “Common Version” (which is not to be confused with the Common Bible of 1973, an ecumencial edition of the Revised Standard Version).

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