Bibliology for Beginners: What Does the Bible Say about the Bible? by Mark WardI've just released a very short book on bibliology that is not intended to break new ground but rather to help beginners step firmly onto biblical ground. I wrote it at the request of a...
A brand new book I wrote this past year, Basics for a Biblical Worldview has just been released. It's a sixth grade biblical worldview textbook for BJU Press. For this project I was privileged to rejoin as a freelancer the team I was on at BJU Press for nine years,...
I will not and cannot discuss textual criticism with my brothers and sisters in Christ who insist on the exclusive use of the King James Version. I will discuss only vernacular translation. But there are two questions that my KJV-Only friends have consistently asked...
I love my brothers and sisters in Christ who insist on the exclusive use of the King James Version, because we have a “like precious faith” in the biblical gospel—and because certain of those brothers and sisters showed great love to me in high school. They continue...
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On the t-shirt, I like how “And Mitzpah” was just randomly left on at the beginning of the verse.
Right! Except that “Mitzpah” does mean “watchpost.” But it’s still odd to leave “And Mitzpah” at the beginning, and I don’t think they did it because they knew what the word meant (though I’m just guessing from available evidence, namely the quality of design work that went into that shirt…).
This is an example of how slavishly people stick to “verses,” like I think I’ve mentioned. “But God commendeth His love toward us…” They include the conjunction at the beginning because it’s “in the verse,” but they would never do such a thing while quoting a novel or a letter they received.
I don’t want to make too big a deal of typography and layout considerations; it’s more important that people read their Bibles than that they read a Mark Ward approved edition. But I’m still pretty sure that these considerations matter more than most people think; and I think most people don’t think about them at all.
I don’t think the designer was even thinking, just taking the whole verse and plopping it on the shirt, “And Mitzpah” and all.