Subject: Do you own a TNIV? |
Bible Note: Justme, the list of Bibles I submitted was not, or meant to be, exhaustive by any means. To your inquiry concerning the NIV and NLT, neither of which were included in the list, I would say this: Both are fine for surveying the forest, but I favor a more literally accurate translation for studying the individual trees in detail. Time was when I used the NIV to a certain agree, though I must confess never to have had any great affinity for it, and even less now in the wake of the introduction of the TNIV, published by the same publisher of NIV and translated by essentially the same translation team. The NLT (New Living Translation) is far superior to its predecssor, the Living Bible, which is a theological catastrophe, but it is a paraphrase, albeit a conservative and, I think, generally responsible one, but it suffers to a certain degree from the ailment known as the gender-neutral syndrome. I'm keenly aware that some of my views on acceptable translations are subjective, having been nurtured from childhood on the King James Bible, and accordingly I fall out of favor with translations that depart radically from the King James tradition. But I make neither apology nor excuse for my little idiosyncrasy, because at my age it doesn't bother me to be a bit quirky if it suits my fancy! --Hank |