Did Evangelical Snowflakes Censor the Bible? Salon.com vs. the ESV

Salon.com recently ran an interview of sociologist Samuel L. Perry, who in turn had written an academic piece in the Journal for the American Academy of Religion—a piece charging that the ESV translators had softened certain rough edges in the Bible in order to make the Bible's message more palatable to modern audiences. The offending words? "Slave" and "Jew."d Salon piece: https://www.salon.com/2021/07/10/when... JAAR piece: https://academic.oup.com/jaar/article... 🎁 Help me end Bible translation tribalism, one plow boy at a time: ✅   / mlward   ✅ https://buymeacoffee.com/mlward 📖 Check out my book, Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible: http://amzn.to/2r27Boz 🎥 Watch my Fifty False Friends in the KJV series:    • 150 False Friends in the KJV   👏 Many, many thanks to the Patreon supporters who make my work possible! Name, James Duly, Robert Gifford, Lanny M Faulkner, Lucas Key, Dave Thawley, William McAuliff, Razgriz, James Goering, Eric Couture, Martyn Chamberlin, Edward Woods, Thomas Balzamo, Brent M Zenthoefer, Tyler Rolfe, Ruth Lammert, Gregory Nelson Chase, Ron Arduser, Caleb Farris, Dale Buchanan, Jess English, Aaron Spence, Orlando Vergel Jr., John Day, Joshua Bennett, K.Q.E.D., Brent Karding, Kofi Adu-Boahen, Steve McDowell, Kimberly Miller, A.A., James Allman, Steven McDougal, Henry Jordan, Nathan Howard, Rich Weatherly, Joshua Witt, Wade Huber, M.L., Brittany Fisher, Tim Gresham, Lucas Shannon, Easy_Peasy , Caleb Richardson, Jeremy Steinhart, Steve Groom, jac, Todd Bryant, Corey Henley, Jason Sykes, Larry Castle, Luke Burgess, Joel, Joshua Bolch, Kevin Moses, Tyler Harrison, Bryon Self, Angela Ruckman, Nathan N, Gen_Lee_Accepted , Bryan Wilson, David Peterson, Eric Mossman, Jeremiah Mays, Caleb Dugan, Donna Ward, DavidJamie Saxon, Omar Schrock, Philip Morgan, Brad Dixon, James D Leeper, M.A., Nate Patterson, Dennis Kendall, Michelle Lewis, Lewis Kiger, Dustin Burlet, Michael Butera, Reid Ferguson, Josiah R. Dennis, Miguel Lopez, CRB, D.R., Dean C Brown, Kalah Gonzalez, MICHAEL L DUNAVANT, Jonathon Clemens, Travis Manhart, Jess Mainous, Brownfell, Leah Uerkwitz, Joshua Barzon, Benjamin Randolph, Andrew Engelhart, Mark Sarhan, Rachel Schoenberger