606 pages--$21.95 (hardcover) [sorry, out of print]
[A third edition is almost complete.
Expected publication date is summer 2011. If you would seriously like to help
get it published, please contact Vance Publications]
As suitable for reading as it is valuable for reference, this book provides an
explicit and comprehensive examination of every word in the Authorized
Version of the Bible that has been deemed archaic, obsolete, antiquated, or
otherwise outmoded. The result is both a fascinating and encyclopedic study
of words--their meaning, derivation, usage, and significance. The thesis of this
seminal work is that the Authorized Version is no more archaic than daily
newspapers, current magazines, and modern Bible versions. To further
supplement the work and to substantiate the underlying thesis, reference is
made not only to various newspapers and magazines, but to contemporary
Bible versions like the New King James Version, the New International
Version, the New American Standard Bible, and the New Revised Standard
Version. This book is unique in that it seeks neither to criticize nor to correct
the text of the Authorized Version. Extensively documented with over 5000
footnotes, the book contains twenty-four chapters and fourteen appendixes,
with a preface, introduction, epilogue, and bibliography.
