John said:
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I have, on occasion, ended up in discussions on the net with people criticising modern translations and holding up the KJV as the ideal. While I greatly respect the KJV, in every case I have debated the modern translations were actually a far more literal translation than the KJV - especially the NIV and the New American Standard.

Are you sure you meant to include the NIV as being more literal than the KJV? How can a dynamic equivalent Bible be more literal than a formal equivalent Bible?

Tom