You know a Bible is a good translation if your favourite people have endorsed it. After all, if they use this translation and they have a famous ministry, it must be good.
Tag: English Bibles
I stand in awe of the small groups of believers across the world, who at great personal cost are working to make the Bible available to their own people in their own language.
Pies and the World’s Languages
One pie chart which makes one simple lesson.
Reading the Passion Bible
A short post, pointing to a useful resource about one English translation of the Bible.
You Know What? I Just Don’t Care
In the same way that we talk about Bible translation, but only refer to one northern-European language, we talk about mission, but fail to see beyond our neighbourhood.
Hurray For English Bibles
I owe virtually all of my spiritual growth and development to reading, studying and listening to the Bible in English.
Bite the Wax Tadpole
An excellent video about Bible translation.
As a general rule, anyone who claims to have studied the text of the Bible and found something that everyone else has missed is best avoided. If they have studied the text in the original languages and discovered something that everyone else has missed, they are well educated, but still best avoided.
An interesting look at whether or not the NIV is “one of the worst translations for anyone who is seriously interested in what the Bible says”.
What Bible would Jesus use? He’d use scrolls in Greek, Hebrew or Aramaic. We simply cannot co-opt Jesus into our arguments about which Bible to use (or anything else in contemporary life for that matter), because he didn’t live in our time and place.