Differences
There's a petite Asian co-op on our team at my workplace. Some people have remarked how similar we look, and I've even gotten called by her name - I'm never sure if it's because "Asians look remarkably similar" or it's because we share commonalities: longish hair (both in a ponytail at times), glasses, small frame/bone structure. Incidentally, we share the same cube wall. But, the difference in our names help distinguish that we are different people.
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On that note, I would think that if two books, published by the same people, go by the same name, I would assume the content inside the two books are the same. Boy, was I was ever surprised to learn otherwise.
When I found that the guest speaker was going to preach on Malachi 4 from the New Living Translation (NLT), I was prepared. I brought my NLT bible to church anticipating that I could follow along. Was I ever wrong! As he began to read from the passage, I started to notice that words were different: in my NLT bible, it started off with "Lord Almighty", but what was he saying - "The Lord of Heaven's Armies"? Did one of us have a fraudulent Bible?
I later asked and found out that the NLT actually has 2 versions - one from 1996 and one from 2004. I had the earlier edition. How was I supposed to know that they came out with another edition under the same name? Other versions of the Bible tends to distinguishes updated versions by adding "New" in front or other names such as: tNIV (today's NIV), NKJV (new King James), but I guess their logic must have been if they added New to New Living Translation, it would be New New Living Translation, which would be redundant.
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It's no wonder that people (like me) don't know everyone's names on our team; the size of my team is bigger than the last company I worked at! Thank goodness we have subteams.