Since I preach from the ESV, this may be of interest to our flock.
ESV Trusted By Leaders from Crossway on Vimeo.
See also a post where I talk about translating a particular passage.
HT: JT
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I have a digital version of the ESV that I use sometimes BUT…I probably won’t purchase one. I will, however, purchase the NIV 2011. If I made an NIV video it would include:
Doug Moo
Craig Blomberg (who also was an ESV review scholar)
Gordon Fee
Richard France
David Instone-Brewer
Karen Jobes (awesome 1 Peter comm in BECNT)
Bill Mounce
Mark Strauss
Bruce Waltke
and others. So will you buy a new NIV with me??
I will not buy the new NIV. It does have some improvements from the TNIV but I still think it is the TNIV just modified. They should renamed the NIV to the Not Inspired Version.
I will purchase an NIV – – or at least get it digitally. That is a tremendous list. I also like Karen Jobes commentary on Esther.
I believe the newly revised NIV is probably the best mediating English translation available. I look forward to buying it when it comes out in print next year!
Dr. Jobes – another fine facualty member at Wheaton College.
Chris Land said, “They should renamed the NIV to the Not Inspired Version.”
Hmm, you mean like every other translation of the Bible . . . ? Only the original autographs were inspired. Of course it doesn’t follow that we can’t evaluate translations; my response to you should *not* be taken as an endorsement of either the TNIV or the NIV ’11.