Subject: Introducing the English Standard Version |
Bible Note: Greetings Ed! I'm sure that if we all set our minds to seriously "pick out" the "most literal" of all Bible translations, that we all may just pick out a different translation for one reason or another.. :-) But I do agree with your assessment, that the NASB and KJV and NKJV are all 'very close'. There are many places where I like the KJV, and still others where the NKJV seems to get the best of them.. And there are things that I like out of the ESV that seems to be even 'more literal' than the NASB.. However, the NASB seems to win out more frequently than the others when I do a verse by verse comparison through the entire New Testament.. Even so, I absolutely dislike the way the NASB renders Isaiah 53:6, which is my favorite verse! To this day, I have and quote this verse out of the KJV (and ESV) instead of the NASB for the way that the NASB has rendered this verse (even though the NASB at the same time has made a literal rendering of it).. "All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way, but the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all." (Nolan's version :-) ) |