Embarrassing lack of interest

For those interested in studying the history of english bible translations, this is probably a gold mine. For the rest of us, however, I would not excatly say that the lack of interest is embarrasing – just lacking. ;-)

It's not that embarrassing if you consider that they suddenly doubled (or something like that) the number of titles in the collection some time ago. Nice, but it means the production cost went up and the peak went down accordingly. And since they didn't tell the existing bidders about it, I would imagine virtually no one has upped his or her bid. IOW, I suspect the number of bids isn't at all as low as it looks like, it's just that at $1.11/vol it's going to need a lot of bids to get into production. Which shouldn't be impossible to get. For native English speakers it should be a bargain. Just don't expect me to up my bid, I'm just interested in a couple (and I can get those anyway).

Just the Julia Smith one would be worth it. Even Metzger couldn't ignore her hebrew translation arguing her literal approach was way too literal. But I keep the PDF version and like to read it at times, in the same way I like YLT. When there's 'a problem' the literal versions pick it up pretty fast.

The two Disciples ones are also interesting; I wish the Joseph Smith one were included since it was the same era and same discussions. Probably don't want TOO many but the collection does have a wide range of participation.

The Bishops is a classic, if you've read the story. Indeed, probably each is a commentary on belief at a point in time; what they thought was critical.

Today I think we're somewhat naive in thinking 'modern' is the 'most accurate' and ignore language's functions of communication.

I just got my big placed…. if only it was as easy to get people interested in the New Interpreter's Bible… although i know there is a significant  price difference..

-Dan