{"id":164,"date":"2005-10-28T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-29T03:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/?p=164"},"modified":"2005-10-28T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-29T03:02:00","slug":"which-bible-translation-is-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/28\/which-bible-translation-is-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Bible Translation is Better?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the blogs that I follow casually is the Better Bibles Blog<\/a>. Ever since I was the only one carrying a non-NASB translation around TMC (and later TMS), I have had to defend my choice of preferred translation. Today I see a post about the ESV and TNIV<\/a>. I use neither, but both have passionate advocates and attackers, especially in my circles. My prediction is that the ESV will replace the NASB as translation of choice at TMC\/TMS by the end of the decade. And the translation principles adopted by the TNIV committee led the school president once to encourage all of the students to mail their NIV Bibles back to Zondervan. John Piper loves the ESV and slams the NIV. Consequently students may tend to choose one over the other solely on the basis of their teacher’s advice, without actually looking at them. Thus I think the following blog by a Bible translator from a different circle might be helpful to some.<\/p>\n

If we could decide the merits of the ESV<\/a> vs. the TNIV<\/a> solely on the quality of their website technologies and blog currency<\/a>, the ESV would win hands down. The ESV Internet team is superb. (I wish the English in the ESV were the same; much of it is rather strange<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Yesterday, however, the TNIV blog posted notice<\/a> of a new Flash presentation of the TNIV on the Zondervan website<\/a>. Turn your speakers up and click on the titled boxes on the flash screen.<\/p>\n

If you are more concerned about literary quality than technological superiority, my own quantified studies<\/a> demonstrate that the translation quality of the TNIV is superior to that of the ESV. And as an editor and longtime student of English, I can also easily affirm that the literary quality of English in the TNIV surpasses that of the ESV<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I share this not as a final answer but with the hope that it will encourage some to think more about it before deciding. Maybe too it is possible that both have their strengths and these should be recognized by both sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the blogs that I follow casually is the Better Bibles Blog. Ever since I was the only one carrying a non-NASB translation around TMC (and later TMS), I have had to defend my choice of preferred translation. Today I see a post about the ESV and TNIV. I use neither, but both have\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}