Subject: Gender-neutral NIV |
Bible Note: 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 |