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James Moffatt Translation


Michael Miles

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I'd like to see the James Moffatt Translation of the Bible available as an Accordance module.

 

This translation has been in my personal print library for years and I believe that it is a generally ignored and underrated work by an extremely gifted translator. Using it alongside other English translations often results in many eye opening moments that usually result in a healthy digging session in the original languages.

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I believe Moffat's is the only Bible translation to make reference to 'bagpipes,' can anyone confirm that?

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I believe Moffat's is the only Bible translation to make reference to 'bagpipes,' can anyone confirm that?

 

Yes, in Daniel chapter 3 you will find reference to bagpipes.

 

Here is a link with the word bagpipes highlighted - http://books.google.com/books?id=oZfnVGt4j7MC&pg=PA964&lpg=PA964&dq=moffatt+bible+bagpipes&source=bl&ots=hoRmAB7xvi&sig=oSDC7tqAT_e_CYsucS5HPa0wPhc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WFZ8UPeoK-muiAKI6oHgDQ&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=moffatt%20bible%20bagpipes&f=false

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I'm back again to suggest the James Moffatt Translation of the Bible as an Accordance module. It's a very interesting translation, especially for study in the Minor Prophets.

 

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I only saw the New Testament from James Moffat as e-text.

 

First question: Do you have found a full Bible?

Second question: How interested are you?

Third question: Are you interested enough to do an OCR of this Bible? The NT is done you'll find a lot e-texts.

    If you are enough interrested then I would suggest to buy Abbyy FineReader 15 for Windows. This is much more sophisticated. There you can have the OCR as overlay to the PDF and the unknown characters are very fast to correct. The Mac version is years behind. 

Fourth question: Is Accordance willing to do this in their store? I saw in the Logos Forum there are also some requests. Maybe there have someone done an e-text. 

 

Greetings

 

Fabian

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I'm finding PDFpenPro from Smile software does a good job of OCR on the Mac. You can toggle the invisible OCR layer, and re-OCR individual pages or the complete document.

It's a competent replacement for Acrobat Pro 11 (the last non-subscription version released by Adobe).

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Let me know if any of you find a digital version of the complete text. 

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I've had  a search but couldn't find one. I saw something about a Moffat Bible page on Facebook, but haven't checked it out. It may still be under copyright.

 

Edit: the Facebook page has nothing to do with the Bible.

 

The complete Bible appears to be published by Cokesbury. And/or Kregel.

Originally in London by Hodder and Stoughton, 1935, and in New York by Harper, 1935.

Edited by Alistair
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Reviving this thread to track interest in it.

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On 10/21/2019 at 3:20 PM, Mark Allison said:

Let me know if any of you find a digital version of the complete text. 

https://archive.org/details/oldtestamentnewt0001unse/page/n15/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/newtestamentnewt01moff/page/n7/mode/2up

 

Also, https://studybible.info/Moffatt

http://www.biblesupport.com/e-sword-downloads/file/853-james-moffatt-nt-1913/

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+1

There are some flashes of brilliance in this translation.

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