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1 | Gender-neutral NIV | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 32503 | ||
Thanks, Makarios, for an informative post regarding the new-fangled NIV. What stopped me in my tracks in your note was the last sentence: that there are now 70 translations in English of the Bible or parts of it. How sparse! I think we should have at a bare minimum four or five hundred. We can always build barns in our backyards to house them..... Of course, there is a viable, if not so garish, alternative to this madness. We could choose a decent translation that is faithful to the ancient manuscripts, sit ourselves down, and actually read and study it. Or is this just too, too mundane to assuage our eternal itch for the new and the dazzling? --Hank | ||||||
2 | Gender-neutral NIV | Bible general Archive 1 | Morant61 | 32510 | ||
Greetings Hank! The sad thing is that much of the push for 'new' translations is simply motivated by the desire to capture our dollars. Do we really need 70 plus English translations? Are they really all that different? Or do they simply create new markets? Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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3 | Gender-neutral NIV | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 32514 | ||
Hello once again, Tim! P.T. Barnum has given us a decent answer to part of this new translation mania: Said he, "There's a sucker born every minute." And so long as the Bible market is populated with suckers who have no more gumption than to fall for the "clearer and more accurate" claims of every new translation that comes down the biblical pike, publishers will continue to crank them out. I wouldn't be at all surprised that the market for Bible translators isn't one of the fastest-growing job markets in the country...... And yes, Tim, there is little room for doubt that Big Bucks is the motivating force behind it except for the few non-profit publishers, our sponsor, the Lockman Foundation, being one of them. HarperCollins, the parent firm of Zondervan of NIV fame, is not a non-profit organization by any means..... If market research indicated a possible lucrative market for a Bible translation for people who own German Shepherd dogs, make no mistake about it: you would see one on the store shelves within six months. --Hank | ||||||