SOON TO COME: The long awaited Update to the 1st Edition  (June 26, 1996) - Now expected to be a 2 Volume Work:

                           
                                        ANTICIPATED RELEASE:   Spring of 2011

People who are taught to believe that God is a Trinity, and that Jesus is the second person of this triune God, are often directed to John 1:1 as one of a number of alleged scriptural validations for some facet of that teaching.  Begun in November of 1991, over eighteen years in the making, the following compilation of 416 renderings (principally of the third clause, along with many of their translators' remarks), has been brought together with the thought of furnishing a comprehensive tool, that is, in order to facilitate addressing certain questions, lending towards both a better understanding and more accurate translation of this very controversial verse. 

An Exhaustive Annotated Bibliography, A Comprehensive Historical Analysis* (Second Edition: Updated, Corrected & Revised), containing over 1,100 pages (8 1/2" by 11"), 590,000+ words, offering a detailed, bibliographic listing from 17 different language sources, covering materials stretching through some 2,000 years.**

Although the primary focus of this work is centered on John 1:1, many of the other scriptures typically used by Trinitarians - that is, in attempts to substantiate their view that Jesus is God or that God is a Trinity - are also addressed, as you will discover these covered within our 26 appendixes, various facsimile illustrations and charts.  And yet, this is not to the exclusion of many of the other topics commonly associated with the various issues, those often raised by the different translations of this Greek wording, each being comprehensively addressed, in along with the numerous, historical offerings of this most controversial scripture.

By means of this unique publication (vol. 1 - Main Text, vol. 2 - Appendix), it is our purpose is to provide for the general reader, as well as the dedicated student of the Bible, a sampling of what has been offered by many, well respected Bible scholars, down through the centuries, that is, as to the many alternative renditions of this particular, so called, Trinitarian proof text.  Perhaps, to the surprise of some, will be the discovery that the work's represented herein are those as both by Trinitarian and non-Trinitarian alike.
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*BIBLIOGRAPHY: Where possible, we have listed the Author Name(s); their Birth/Death Dates (when known); Degrees/Qualifications; Full Title of Work;  Publisher Place, Name and Date; Page Number(s) referenced; The Library of Congress (Washington, D.C), The British Library (England) or The Online Computer Library Center [OCLC] (Dublin, Ohio) catalogue listing identifications.

**ANNOTATED: By way of our footnotes and endnotes, although not always in agreement with many of their final interpretations, we have attempted to provide for our readers what each scholar had to say, that is, as to their explanations and/or justifications for having worded the third clause of John 1:1 as something different from the typical, Trinitarian influenced rendering, "and the Word was God."  
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