Q&A: A Bible Translator Answers Your Questions about the ESV
The Crossway Podcast
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The Importance of Reading Manuscripts
The King James translators worked with the best manuscripts they knew and had, which is all anybody can do. So for instance, just in an Old Testament example, it's a famous one that folks would know the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1948. Be hard to fault anybody really before about 1985 or so for not being able to have those put into play and use them. But again, you have humility because there's been lots of people work on this.
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