If, according to the Proverbs of Solomon, “The way of the transgressor is hard” (Prov. 13:15 KJV), the way of the translator is scarcely less so. Not only does the work of translating demand the utmost in concentrated effort, but the result will seldom please everyone — least of all the conscientious translator. Since not […]
You might be tempted to think that this is a belated April Fool’s joke! Featuring exciting and inspiring full-color inserts with photos of and insights from stock car racing’s finest personalities, the NIV Thinline Bible: Stock Car Edition is sure to be a motorsports fan’s favorite Bible. Motor Racing Outreach, a ministry to the world […]
Just in case you were worried that you didn’t have enough Bibles in English, along comes the Lexham English Bible which describes itself as a transparent and linear translation. The translation (which is just of the New Testament as far as I can tell) originates with an interlinear Greek English translation which has then been […]
Yesterday in Church, the reader was reading from the NIV and I was following the reading in the NLT on my phone. One little word change between the two, really made me sit up and pay attention. In the NIV Luke 1:44 reads: As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the […]
I don’t have time to write much about this, and my blood pressure probably couldn’t cope with thinking about the subject for long, but some readers of Kouya Chronicle might want to be aware of this new publication. Author, pastor and teacher Dr. Richard Lee and Thomas Nelson Publishing have assembled the original, one-of-a-kind “American […]
This morning, I had lots of Google hits for blog posts about a new Bible translation. Following up on the links the reason for the mass blogging became obvious, Thomas Nelson have released a new edition of the New Testament and are giving away free copies to the first people to blog about it. I […]
In a world where over a billion people don’t have access to any Scripture at all, I find some of the arguments about which English Bible translation is the best to be a little infuriating. It’s not that I don’t think that there are important issues involved, I just think that we have enough versions […]
Tim Bulkeley who writes at Sans Blogue (one of the funniest blog titles on the planet in my view) has just written an excellent post on what a Bible translation should look like. What makes paragraphs acceptable and headings anathema? Firstly, almost all “normal” books in our culture have the prose printed in paragraphs, but […]
Mark Naylor has just posted a superb article which looks at the way in which culture has an impact on Bible translation. The English Standard Version (ESV), according to the preface on its website, “is an ‘essentially literal’ translation” that emphasizes “word-for-word” correspondence, in order to “be transparent to the original text, letting the reader […]
I’m resisting all temptations to join in with the 25 things meme that is running on Facebook and some blogs. I already say quite enough about myself and my opinions. This list isn’t a meme, but it does have a lot of good stuff to say about translations of the Bible into English. 5. I’m […]