The NIV10 is now up at Bible Gateway. Brian LePort has a good round up of reviews on the new NIV. Denny Burke links to a video by Doug Moo (head of the translation committee) and Denny offers some commentary about the NIV, NIVI, TNIV, and NIV10 controversy. I should also point out that Bible Gateway/Gospel Coalition has some blog posts on Perspectives on Translation. This includes my own contribution to the topic of "What Makes a Translation Accurate?". The forum will soon post some additional questions with answers from various scholars. Questions to be addressed in the forum include:
(1) What makes a translation accurate?
(2) Should I consider using multiple translations or stick with one?
(3) When and why do we update Bible translations?
(4) How should a translation render Romans 1:17?
(5) How does a translation best convey hilasterion in Romans 3:25?
(6) How should we identify the teachers Paul has in mind in 2 Timothy 2:2?
(7) How should we translate the phrase πίστις Χριστοῦ in such passages as Galatians 2:16?
I had a lot of fun answering these myself, esp. (4) and (7)! More anon on that.
2 comments:
After seeing Clayboy's response, I decided to do one too. You can find it here.
ON the topic of "What Makes a Translation Accurate?". ...we'd have to list one factor as starting with an accurate Greek Text (for NT).
The Robinson/Pierpont text might be a better starting-point than NA/UBS-based texts at present.
peace
Nazaroo
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