guide to what the underlying Greek means. 2) Paul meant X when he said Y (2) Secondly, conservative Christians, evangelicals, Catholics, and Orthodox, are not necessarily wrong when they interpret the Bible in accord with their politics. When I teach Hebrew Bible, of course, I want people to understand what Psalm 23 once meant, ex hypothesi, in ancient Israel. 2) nor believe in sola scriptura The author of seven books and two collections of essays, he regularly contributes articles and book reviews to both secular and religious periodicals. Posted by: Posted by: You have the wonderful animus typical of an ex-member of a religious or political formation toward his or her rejected mentors. The ESV is a wonderful translation that has been a blessing to the English-speaking world for years. He's a fiction writer who doesn't clearly differentiate between historical fiction and pure fantasy. NRSV is a better match to the wording of the Bible as actually known and loved forever” – beloved renderings of the KJV with roots in earlier tradition. The truth-question is another matter, but there again, you award the prize to the NRSV IMHO on insufficient grounds. I left the ESV behind for the CSB. June 23, 2009 at 09:12 PM. The Revised Version of 1885 even made the same claim. In other words there is an implication that if I'm not using #1 or #2 what I mean is #3. 3:12 is a good example of gender neutrality in the Greek. includes traditional phraseology like “the valley of the shadow of death” and The Translation Review Scholars were chosen to review selected books of the Old or New Testament based on their special expertise. “The ESV is an “essentially literal” translation that seeks as far as possible to capture the precise wording of the original text and the personal style of each Bible writer. This is not to suggest that I do not believe rigorous scholarship, the scientific method, the study of language and other disciplines are not useful--they have been to me and will continue to be--but with them no one will ever have any warrant for belief about anything intangible, and the warrant for belief about that which is tangible will shift often and sometimes drastically. CD-Host | I often think now that if I had encountered the Methodist Church earlier in my journey I might have stopped there; today the Wesleyan Quadrilateral is one of my core hermeneutics. Jun 3, 2012 #1. bach90 Evangelical Catholic. June 26, 2009 at 04:29 PM. Thanks for restating so well a point I was trying to make. He inter-related them with great skill. “In the beginning when God created” of NRSV. But we will not boast beyond limits, but will boast only with regard to the area of influence God assigned to us, to reach even you. The ESV, RSV, & NRSV Compared With all the discussion about the ESV, I’ve created a translation comparison that looks at how similar the ESV, NRSV, and RSV are to each other. I'm not arguing for the ESV over against the NRSV. I'm much more capable of being circumspect about it today than I was then. But that had nothing to do with translation anymore. ". And why care? 8:1), "Thou shalt not bear false witness" (Rom. Posted by: Follow the links in this post if you care about this issue: http://ancienthebrewpoetry.typepad.com/ancient_hebrew_poetry/2009/09/its-crunch-time-for-the-obama-administration.html. John Meunier | I do agree with John strongly that the factor of familiarity is in favour of the ESV. You are going for the sound of the words of their meaning and the KJV crushes the ESV in terms of "sounding like the bible". Quotations may be from the 1769 edition (E-Sword) or 1987 printing (Bible Gateway)- there is little variation between them. 1) The NIV is easier to read for most normal people. That doesn't make a false statement true, but it reduces the guilt. Suzanne | non polygamist or perhaps never divorced). Only God could." From him I would expect the women to stand. 3) The church has always taken Paul to mean X in passage Y I would agree with John though that if you want a translation oriented Study Bible the NET translation is an excellent choice. CD-Host | * out of touch with reality 72% Its translation is deliberately "traditioned." conforms to actual usage. If you want your parishioners to know what the bible says the accuracy wins out. 3:3; Rom. 2:17), removes the warning against being effeminate (1 Cor. Perhaps I'm being dense but I'm not following how this answers what I was discussing. the "mainland city" near Tyre was a suburb called Ushu which incidentally has also been rebuilt. Posted by: If I knew what my problems were, I would cease to be human. NRSV v ESV Discussion in 'LCMS / WELS / ELS / LCC' started by bach90, Jun 3, 2012. The RSV claimed to be an authorized revision of the 1901 American Standard Version (ASV). And that is a perfect example of why I recommend the NISB. 1:4), "by himself" (Heb. Posted by: If I give you that, and again I am in no position to know, so what? at a state university. are not a concern either. #3 is ambiguous in English by itself. You have arranged the furniture in your ideological living room such that these "minor" details are buried under the rug in the closet behind the sofa. It completely eliminates the archaic second person plural personal pronouns (thee, thou, thy, thine) that the RSV retained only in reference to God. :-). JohnFH | before searching for a justification. It put all the supplemental material back on the table. 2) I think Paul meant Venus, but he was bringing with him a Hellenistic notion of layers of heaven in a metaphorical sense (as per the Secrets of Enoch). One other thing occurs to me, and I have to be tread lightly here because I doubt CD is returning to this thread, and I don't want to talk about him behind his back or engage in shallow characterizations. You seem to know this, epistemological, in the same way you know when translators translate the word precisely as the original writer meant it to mean in his time and place and with the meaning he ascribed to it. Now, maybe you've rejected "Christianity" and its baggage without rejecting Christ. Yhvh, maown ata hayita li, bdor vador bterem harim yuladu. Posted by: You apparently locate truth in 2). Don't let the wound scab over. 381. The NRSV fails to correct the RSV’s "grow up to salvation" (1 Pet. funerals and other occasions commemorating the dead. Otherwise, NASB and NRSV are the best versions I have come across. Genesis 1 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Six Days of Creation and the Sabbath. But I was much more of a positivist when I was a Christian. Now I understand you better. Posted by: Sorry if I have taken your thoughts more seriously than you wished that I would. Let me reconstruct this conversation from my POV. I'm trying not to tun this into CD-Hosts "A pilgrims regress". The ESV, on the other hand, has consciously chosen to be a thoroughly Christian, ecclesial Bible (Christ in the OT and NT). I gave the McArthur example to pick something I thought was a fairly clear cut case. We have zero in common, epistemologically. We need health care reform desperately, but not the kind the Democrats are peddling. I may be wrong, but I think this critique could be almost equally used in answer to you belief and desire to get the text as it exactly was: http://www.philosophyandscripture.org/Issue3-1/Bovell/Bovell.html. There is an obssessiveness about it that is very striking. This just naturally fits a little better in the worshiping lives of, dare I say, most Christian churches, while the NRSV--with its own unique approach--is a better fit within academia. Regarding greater accuracy, clarity, and euphony, the NRSV falls short. It was expected that readers would somehow know which verses were about, or applied to, men and women, and which verses were about, or applied only to, men. 6,268 +535 Messianic Married. Saved to me is saved out of spiritual death into spiritual life by faith in the God-man Jesus Christ, through the grace of the Father that was made possible by the Incarnation, death on the cross, and bodily resurrection of the Son and which is empowered by the indwelling and transformative presence and power of His Holy Spirit. But just as I resist the updating of Shakespeare--I'd rather see notes explaining the context of things that we find offensive today that weren't so then--I resist imposing such a rigid blanket of PC over the biblical text that its nuance gets lost. The preface to the NRSV laments the "inherent bias of the English language towards the masculine gender, a bias that in the case of the Bible has often restricted or obscured the meaning of the original text.". It is those alternate readings that can really stimulate serious thought and inquiry. CD-Host | June 25, 2009 at 08:49 AM. team saw fit to eliminate. 6:20), changes corrupters of the Bible to peddlers (2 Cor. The HCSB would be the most notable example where they often handle tricky verses by being very dynamic in the text and very literal in the footnote. I'd go with a paraphrase here. Posted by: better choice as a church Bible, if the intent is to preserve continuity with Why not translate in the way supportive and loving of them? There is not without a single point of data to believe this otherwise. Only geeks read the ESV preface (I am a geek). .and once in a while I refer to each. I've seen this vitriol before against the ESV. 12:40). If I believed that Spong were as intelligent as MacArthur then yes I'd consider Spong dishonest. Now of course this put Pagels in rather embarrassing position, there are even scenes in the movie where the main character is handling leaves of her book written in an ancient codex. “fidelity” = esv 68.74% nasb 67.99% kjv 66.58% nkjv 65.21% csb 64.75% nrsv 60.51% net 53.94% niv 53.10% nlt 39.90% Those versions that ranked highest in “Readability” are more thought-for-thought translations, while those versions that ranked highest in … Furthermore, I wish to emphasize, the basic premise of NRSV runs counter to what the church is, a living organism that has an uninterrupted history in which God in Christ has always been at work. In no instances, however, are the verses renumbered to account for the missing verses—the number of the omitted verses is simply skipped. The Catholic church seems to have it exactly right on this issue, and your own is also sound. I freely bash all the major bible translations for screwing up Paul's frequent use of astrology. 1) The greek text means "Venus". Yes we've been both pretty casual about moving between translations and commentaries on translations. At least, I say, no one can accuse you of being afraid of taking While I understand that there are literary nuances to be conveyed in Hebrew, that are different from those available in Greek (as can be said of any two languages), I'm a little confused as to why the relative weight given to texts that differ in age by 300 years. Posted by: It's simply easier, but not gratifying. But, my concepts of true and belief have been tempered by engagement with post-modernism, Zen and mysticism, among others. Now in the case of Harper Collins and the Reformation Study Bible I think they were just being lazy. If you and I can not even use that word to communicate meaning (it has a real, vital meaning for me, but that word does not have that meaning to you) then what makes you think you can determine meaning from a correctly translated Greek word? 14:5). 3) I would like all the men in this room to stand with ESV Matthew 6:13: “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”. I found the link http://www.firstthings.com/article/2007/01/a-bible-for-everyone-1 but also found this wonderful discussion. The preface openly criticizes the "thought-for-thought" instead of "word-for-word" translation philosophy of the NIV and other translations. The ESV is a great translation. In my case the first crack wasn't the bible but rather a bold faced lie by Josh McDowell and lies in "creation science". Copy the data from the text box and create a new thread. Did my reply to Dan get moderated? If so, what is the difference between it and the NRSV? I would disagree on the footnotes that come from the translations committee. It is at that level that the NRSV in its revisioning engages the text. June 25, 2009 at 10:21 PM. That shift is quite unacceptable. 2) husband of one wife is unquestionably about a man. So my list: 3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. Every story was on level 2 or level 4. He integrates the historical-critical meaning into a symphony of meanings in which traditioned meaning from a variety of epochs is given the consideration and love it deserves. You had started asking about my own personal journey which had far more to do with the NIV Study Bible notes than the NIV translation which led to the whole discussion of the cultures around these bibles. 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