‘Blunder-free’ Bible to be unveiled at CRE

‘Blunder-free’ Bible to be unveiled at CRE

Since the first one more than 630 years ago there have been about 150 English translations of the Bible – but a scholar, poet and grammar expert will be at CRE National 2022 to tell us about the ‘thousand blunders’ repeatedly left uncorrected in all of them.

Christopher Sparkes spent 20 years painstakingly going back to the original Greek and Hebrew and has taken a different approach to translation, using what he calls ‘deep grammar, transcendent logic, internal harmony and diamond-mining research’ to unpick the locks and discover the meanings of Greek and Hebrew words and phrases ‘wrongly translated in every single English version.’

The result is the Keys to the Kingdom Holy Bible, available at CRE National 2022. Chris will also speak about the need for the new version (2pm, Tue 11 Oct). The bible is published by Filament Publishing, a company set up in 1999 by Chris Day who spent a decade with global publisher Encyclopaedia Britannica.

‘My vision was to create a new publishing house that was more author-centric and more flexible to their needs to build a business around their book,’ he said.

The new Bible is, according to Filament, ‘the first pure translation into English of the actual words of the Apostles – not influenced by creeds, traditions or the preconceptions of the translators.’

Sparkes was born in Birmingham in 1951 and lives in Petersfield, Hampshire. After lecturing in higher and further education, he is now a freelance educator. Since 1997, he has been looking into English translations and said: ‘I was stunned when I began looking at Hebrew and Greek words of the Old and New Testaments and comparing them with English Bibles. Some of the English words and phrases did not match the original grammatical forms. Nor did they match the internal themes. Furthermore, the rogue English was consistently backing certain themes of church traditions.’

• Filament Publishing and the Keys to the Kingdom Holy Bible are on stand S2 at CRE National 2022

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