Subject: Informed opinions of the ESV please? |
Bible Note: Hank, I find the ESV more readable than the NKJV and just as readable, but more literal at the same time than the NIV. The English, especially the prose seems to flow better. The texts used for the ESV are the latest in scholarship and it uses the Masoretic text for the for the old testament. The NKJV uses the Bysintine text (TR) and the text used in the NIV is also somewhat dated now. I like the more formal equivalence better than the dynamic equivalence (NIV) method of translation for a bible to study. |