A heartfelt apology:
An Errata
I was appalled recently to find errors in the Biblical text of The Book of Psalms illuminated.
It would have been insignificant if they were in my own words, but to find them in the text of the Scriptures was grievous, even though, in the Lord’s grace, none conflict with its sense.
Having checked the whole against the 2016 ESV, I drafted an Errata, and sent it with a covering apology to Crossway, who had kindly given me copyright permission to use their translation. Extending their generosity, they have now agreed to an Errata, listing significant corrections, to be included as a bookmark in all unsold copies, and available free from the Store page on my website.
As I am now doing, with my apologies to all.
Even with painstaking care, errors intrude. ‘Declare me innocent from hidden faults’, Psalm 19 prays. The book is not perfect, as I already know from its illustrations and discussion. (Although mostly I place the Kimberley in WA, on p180, I teleport it to NT, having begun my camping road trip from Darwin.)
Although this is an unreserved Mea culpa, I don’t want to be guilty of the presumptuous sin (19 again) of histrionics (my initial response was to withdraw the book). Think of the ‘Naughty Bible’ published in 1631, which omitted ‘not’ from the 7th commandment in Exodus 20…
Fiona Pfennigwerth
March ‘22
