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Do Not Use

Posts from the Past: The Kouyanet Guide To Choosing A Bible Translation

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.

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Minority Language Translation

What Does a Bible Translation Team Look Like?

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. 

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Do Not Use

Pies and the World’s Languages

One pie chart which makes one simple lesson.

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English Bibles

Reading the Passion Bible

A short post, pointing to a useful resource about one English translation of the Bible.

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English Bibles

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.

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English Bibles

Hurray For English Bibles

I owe virtually all of my spiritual growth and development to reading, studying and listening to the Bible in English.

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Do Not Use

Bite the Wax Tadpole

An excellent video about Bible translation.

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English Bibles

Here We Go Again: The Passion 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.

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Bible Translation

Translation is Complicated (Honest)

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”.

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Bible Translation

What Is Wrong With This Picture?

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.