Bible Version Selection Tool XML
I have made this tool’s information available through an RSS (like) feed. For information on how to use this feed, see my post on my computer services blog.
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NLT has a Blog
ByhenryWayne Leman at Better Bibles Blog notes that there is now a blog for the NLT. I note with pleasure that the first post deals in a very balanced way with the widespread belief that dynamic equivalence translation is the same thing as paraphrasing. (One should note that in this case “paraphrasing” is not used…
Raymond Brown on Ambiguities and Literal Translation
ByhenryAfter my comments earlier about Piper and the ESV, I found this comment by Raymond Brown in An Introduction to the New Testament: For the purpose of careful reading or study, which concerns us here, one must recognize that sometimes the biblical authors did not write clearly, so that the original texts contain certain phrases…
Man, Mankind, or People – Genesis 1:27 and Genesis 6:5-8
ByhenryOn my Threads blog I comment on Pastor Mark Driscoll’s theological basis for using the ESV at Mars Hill Church. In that article Driscoll makes a special point of the translation of the Hebrew “‘adam” in Genesis 1:27 by the NRSV and NLT: Translations such as the New Revised Standard accommodate this by wrongly translating…
Yet Again Comments on my KJV Video
ByhenryI’m not going to embed it again, but there were a couple of recent comments on my video Why I Hate the KJV. I can’t believe you hate the KJV. Ridiculous. Not fond of, understandable, but regardless of your use of it, the KJV is a masterpiece. This sort of comment was only to be…
Gender Accurate Translation and Interpretation
ByhenryWayne Leman has an exceptional post on women and Bible translation. We talk a great deal about gender accurate (or I still like gender-inclusive) language, but it’s men that are doing most of the talking. That’s because there are more men than women involved in translation. I’m in full agreement with what Wayne says in…
Isaiah 64 in the Orthodox Study Bible
ByhenryI’ve begun using the Orthodox Study Bible in my lectionary reading, which brought me to Isaiah 64 a couple of days ago. It’s been that kind of a week, so I haven’t had time to comment on it until now. First, let me note that having a study Bible with an overtly Christological interpretation of…