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From NIV to NIVi to TNIV to the NIV 2011
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Scot McKnight
From Christianity Today .… [Added: I’m confident, as I look over the CT piece now that it has been expanded, that the NIV Committee for Bible Translation will not squash the TNIV into history but will improve the NIV in light of gains from the TNIV. I have every reason to think the new NIV…
God’s Secretaries
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xscot mcknight
There are better books on the King James Version, there are better books on the rise of English Bibles, and there are better books on the technique of translation, but there is no better book that tells the behind-the-scenes story of the King James Bible than that of God’s Secretaries by Adam Nicolson. I took…
TNIV and the Apocrypha
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xscot mcknight
The post recently about the apocryphal books of the Old Testament, along with the poll, took me a bit by surprise. What I’m wondering is if you would purchase and read a TNIV (or NIV) that decided to include the Apocrypha? Or would you find that over the line? (I’m using the NIV and TNIV…
Translation and Context
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xscot mcknight
I am baffled by our translations of the Lord’s Prayer passage in Luke, and maybe you join me here. Luke 11:2, in the NIV, RSV, NRSV, and many others: “When you pray, say.” Even the ESV, which prides itself on a more literal rendering, has the same. “When you pray, say.” The Greek behind our…
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