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SOON TO COME: The Long Awaited Update To The 1st Edition, An Exhaustive Study (Initially Published: June 26, 1996) - Now Expected To Be A 2 Volume Work, Entitled:
What About
John 1:1?
ANTICIPATED
RELEASE: Spring of 2010
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 seventeen
years in the making, the following compliation of 406 translated
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),
this work contains over 1,100 pages (8 1/2" by 11"), over 555,000 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
facimile 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, John 1:1.
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 (Trinitarian and non-Trinitarian alike), that is, as to the many appropriate, 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 produced by both 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 [LC] (Washington, D.C), The British Library [BL] (England) or The Online Computer Library Center [OCLC] (Dublin, Ohio) catalogue listings.
**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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