Subject: What do you think of new Holman Bible? |
Bible Note: Thanks, LB Lamb, for your response. Your points of view on translations are interesting, although I must confess I'd never really thought much along the paths that your views lead me except your rejection for obvious reasons some of the less-than-orthodox versions. Holman is listed as a non-profit organization and would hardly come under the category of commerical publishers. The translation team of this Bible, some 80 in number, are half of them Baptists and half of various other communions. It seems to me, with all respect, that your criterion of rejecting a transalation that is "developed and editorially controlled primarily by denominations" would leave the Authorized Version out, because it was most assuredly a product of and for the Anglican (Church of England) communion. The name of the publication is Holman Christian Standard Bible, not Holman Baptist Bible. As with any new translation, I opt to reserve my vote until I've had ample opportunity to examine it thoroughly and carefully. For a project of this magnitude which is projected to cost some 10 to 12 million dollars, I believe it only fair to give them a chance to prove their stuff. Public acceptance of a new translation has historically been a slow process, and that's good. It took the King James Version fifty years to find its place in the sun. |