Revision Revised

This book is the necessary antidote to the poison of the modern Bible versions which has been so uncritically swallowed by the majority of Christians. There are some good studies done since his but Burgon's is THE definitive one, especially since he was a contemporary and the scholarly equal -- really the superior -- of the revisers of the Bible that came out in 1881.Burgon makes it clear that the revisers violated their agreement to do the most minimal necessary revision of the Authorized Version, by instead substituting their own preferred Greek text, for which they had no authorization whatever, and by making some 36,000 irritatingly unnecessary, meaningless and inelegant changes in the English -- which in fact anyone with the slightest appreciation for the English language can see for yourself if you'll take the time to do it.Burgon shows in no uncertain terms that the Greek text they substituted in the place of the Received Text (on which the Authorized (King James) Bible and its predecessors had been based), was already known to be corrupt -- and its type was even known to be corrupt by the King James translators themselves. It was apparently the appeal of the text's being so ancient and so much more in accord with Westcott and Hort's own modernist/rationalist anti-supernatural bias that led them to prefer it. They even invented a notion that their preferred text was the authentic text and the Received Text the corruption, making up a completely imaginary early revision to account for the differences. The differences are important, involving the eradication of many of the most familiar verses known to English speaking peoples since the King James. They claim those verses were added; Burgon shows they were cut out of the Westcott and Hort text, that they were already part of the original writings and that the corrupted texts that now underlie all the modern Bibles had been mutilated, even by known heretics.And once they got the committee to accept it, against the wisdom of some, now it is accepted blindly by people who don't know any better. So to break the spell you need to know what Burgon has to say about it. At times it can be tedious but there's no other way to answer what Westcott and Hort did to the Greek and the English of our Bible than to take apart each example in detail, and in fact I wish Burgon could have taken apart every last case of it because his judgment is so compelling, but that was simply impracticable.And by the way, the reviewer who said Burgon was opposed to revising the KJV at all is simply wrong; he was objecting to the destructive and unnecessary changes made by the revising committee instead of the minimal changes they contracted to make.

It seems these days that you have the KJV Only people opposed to everyone else. Actually there is more to the discussion, and the Revision Revised brings this point out. Opposing KJV Only people, the Dean mentions the need to revise the KJV and at the same time completely destructs the Critical Text View. You cannot read this book without doing more research, and concluding that the Revision of 1881 and all modern texts supporting like views are corrupt and should not be trusted as the (complete & correct) word of God. You may of course have a different opinion, like noses we all have one. Best wishes to all that read the book and receive from the Dean the message he seeks to convey.

Very good

I became a fan of Dean John William Burgon after reading this book, and I have been collecting his work ever since. He has put together well written arguments to support his position (not that everyone will agree with him on some things). Highly recommended for those like myself who appreciate the King James Bible and the study of the text, translation, etc.

Burgon knows what he is talking about.

I love this book.

Ok

The truth told in an outstanding work by a brilliant man.

Burgon has done a very thorough job here, addressing a major problem within Christianity. Wescott and Hort have done untold damage with their work