The word of God is not a secret code that needs unlocked.

[Dino246]

So then, there can be no argument for them producing a superior translation by what they chose to work with.

Exactly. In comparison with what is available today, their resources were very limited.

 

[ChristRoseFromTheDead]

for example we have in every English version of the Psalm, 'they pierced My hands and My feet'
that's not incorrect, but what it literally says is 'like a lion, My hands and My feet'

In the MT, but the LXX says pierced, so possibly translators used the LXX version instead of the MT one. I know Jewish bibles at one time universally used the MT version of Zechariah 14:5, but several later editions switched over to the LXX version, because it is indisputably the correct version.

 

[posthuman]

So then, there can be no argument for them producing a superior translation by what they chose to work with.

There is at the very leaat no argument that they had superior resources at their disposal, and the whole "anti-textual-criticism" argument is nonsense or at best a diversionary tacric; textual criticism is exactly what every good translator does, kjv governing body included: they critique the texts available at them.

 

[posthuman]

In the MT, but the LXX says pierced, so possibly translators used the LXX version instead of the MT one. I know Jewish bibles at one time universally used the MT version of Zechariah 14:5, but several later editions switched over to the LXX version, because it is indisputably the correct version.

iirc the root of the argument is that the word for "pierced" is the word for lion. so the argument is purely about the true meaning of ancient Hebrew words, not about versions.

i will do some tracing. i am completely untrained in Hebrew and Greek, so i can definitely not comment reliably offhand.

 

[Genez]

Exactly. In comparison with what is available today, their resources were very limited.

Those who believe the KJV Only propaganda, are also very limited.
I wish them well.

 

[Genez]

There is at the very leaat no argument that they had superior resources at their disposal, and the whole "anti-textual-criticism" argument is nonsense or at best a diversionary tacric; textual criticism is exactly what every good translator does, kjv governing body included: they critique the texts available at them.

The whole "anti-textual-criticism" argument came from Satan's atmospheric fake news channel.
Satan fears and hates there being clear thinking Christians walking around and getting about in his domain.
Only knowing TRUTH makes them free. King James fails that test with its archaic language.
I near flunked Shakespeare in school..... and, was far from being alone. It is an insult to me to tell me that the KJV is God's perfect words.