Errors in the Exhaustive Library of Bible People, 2013
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2022 11:54 am
When looking up John Mark (a.k.a. Marcus) in the Exhaustive Library of Bible People (ExLBP, entry number 1678), imagine my surprise when it showed 5 Old Testament passages where his name showed up. Those passages were 2 Samuel 13:28, Job 21:5, Job 33:31, Psalms 37:37, and Psalms 48:13. In all five of those Old Testament instances, the word "Mark" was a verb occurring at the beginning of a quotation, as in "Mark my words," not a personal name.
Another issue, while not technically an error, is the way the ExLBP shows "Occurrences in the Authorized Version." In these summaries, in addition to actual occurrences of the name, it also includes all of the occurrences of pronouns such as I, me, my, thee, thou, etc. that refer to that name. The problem with that approach is that these pronouns aren't actually occurrences of the "name" in the KJV. That can be highly misleading. For example, to say that the apostle John's name (ExLBP number 1676) occurs 156 times in the Authorized Version is absolutely not correct. In fact, his name only appears a total of 35 times: 20 times in the gospels, 9 times in Acts, once in Galatians, and 5 times in Revelation.
Another issue, while not technically an error, is the way the ExLBP shows "Occurrences in the Authorized Version." In these summaries, in addition to actual occurrences of the name, it also includes all of the occurrences of pronouns such as I, me, my, thee, thou, etc. that refer to that name. The problem with that approach is that these pronouns aren't actually occurrences of the "name" in the KJV. That can be highly misleading. For example, to say that the apostle John's name (ExLBP number 1676) occurs 156 times in the Authorized Version is absolutely not correct. In fact, his name only appears a total of 35 times: 20 times in the gospels, 9 times in Acts, once in Galatians, and 5 times in Revelation.