Revealing the Revealed Word?

One of my favorite head scratchers about fundamentalist Christians -- those who believe that the Bible is the actual word of God -- is how they come to that conclusion when the version they most often rely upon is an English translation of works originally written in Hebrew and Greek. As a prof of mine in college put it, they seem to think that King James wrote the Bible. So I'm always interested when people come out with new translations. One scholar has put together a new 1000+ page version of the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible) that he claims sticks more closely to the original Hebrew texts. It makes for some interesting changes.