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Reader questions about the translation — a word-choice, the text, the canon, a comparison between versions — answered one at a time, in the librarian's way: sourced, compared, and left for you to weigh rather than settled from the desk. Have one of your own? The question box is exactly how this series grows.

Was the Word "God," or "a god"?
John 1:1 and the deity of Christ — the Greek of the missing article, "firstborn of all creation," the Angel of Jehovah, and the whole argument laid out on both sides.
Why does this translation say "Jehovah"?
The name of God — the four letters behind "the LORD," why almost every Bible hides it, and the choice between "the LORD," "Yahweh," and "Jehovah."
Why isn't the Book of Enoch in this translation?
The Masoretic source text, the canon question, the Ethiopian exception, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
How long were the days of creation?
The elastic Hebrew word yom, the sunless first days and the open seventh, and the ordinary-day, day-age, and literary-framework readings — with their pedigrees, no vote cast.
Did Isaac Newton write about the Bible?
The scientist wrote more on Scripture than on physics — his Daniel & Revelation, his textual criticism of the Johannine Comma, his chronology, and his hidden anti-Trinitarianism, handled honestly.