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Bible Translation

Reader reviews of the HCSB

September 21, 2011

The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB) was one of last month’s giveaway books. Thanks to Phil McCheddar and James Durbin for sending in reviews of the translation and keep a look out for tomorrow’s post announcing our September giveaways! HCSB Translation “Not having heard much about this translation before, I didn’t know what to expect. [...]

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Celebrating 400 years of the King James Bible

May 10, 2011

This video comes from my friends at St Helen’s Church here in London. Actually I used to attend this church on a Sunday evening in the 90′s when I was a student (going to a charismatic one in the morning). It was there that I got to know Richard Cunningham and Hugh Palmer. This clip [...]

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Rick Warren at Desiring God 2010 – The Battle for your mind

October 4, 2010

Rick Warren’s talk at the Desiring God 2010 National Conference Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God conference follows below. Not surprisingly in some reformed circles online the recriminations continue. People wonder why Piper would invite Warren. But I very much enjoyed this talk. Warren is no lightweight. It is easy to [...]

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Wayne Grudem’s Thoughts on Bible Translation

March 2, 2010

This is a classic quote from Grudem about why he prefers essentially literal translations (sometimes called word-for-word)  over the so-called dynamic equivalent (sometimes called idea for idea) For more about Bible translation see my interview with the ESV Bible translators: “I cannot teach theology or ethics from a dynamic equivalent Bible. I tried the NIV [...]

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A Bible is For Life, Not Just For Christmas

November 25, 2008

Christmas seems like it’s just around the corner. In these times of financial pressure, surely we all feel the need to make good choices in our gifts this year and not be wasteful. A new Bible for a loved one (or dare I say for yourself?) is certainly an excellent investment. But what Bible? And [...]

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2008 Top Posts Numbers 3 and 4

September 1, 2008

Number 4 in the list of most read posts this year so far is a post linking to a number of sermons by C. J. Mahaney, as well as my interview with him. If you missed it, do also check out his sermon on People God Killed. Number 3 is a post summarizing a series [...]

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Bilingual ESV Bibles Provided Free During Olympic Games

August 7, 2008

This press release was just sent out from Crossway. It is great news and reminds us of the need to pray during these Olympic games. ***************************** Wheaton, IL— China will provide 10,000 free Chinese-English bilingual Bibles to be distributed in the Olympic Village where the Olympic athletes and media are housed, as reported by the [...]

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3rd Most Read Post – The ESV: A Bible Translation for Everyone?

February 15, 2008

No. 3 on the list of most-read posts on this blog appeared on July 10, 2005 and represented the first in my series of interviews with Christian leaders. I had no idea back in 2005 where the blogging journey would lead me. An exclusive offer to interview the translators of what was then a little-known, [...]

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20th Most Read Post – Twelve Literary Features of the Bible

January 16, 2008

No. 20 on the list of most-read posts on this blog appeared on October 25, 2007, and introduced us to a remarkable new approach to a study Bible, brought to us by Crossway. As of January 2008, I’m still working my way through this Bible, reading it from cover-to-cover. I’m enjoying it very much. Crossway [...]

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Twelve Literary Features of the Bible

October 25, 2007

UPDATEIn January 2008, the following post was identified as the 20th all-time most popular post with readers of this blog. The 21st most popular post was my interview with Mark Dever. This post introduced us to a remarkable new approach to a study Bible, brought to us by Crossway. In January 2008, I’m still working [...]

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BOOK – ESV Literary Study Bible: Editor, Leland Ryken

September 5, 2007

Literary criticism has a bad reputation amongst evangelical Christians. This is, of course, misplaced since viewing the Bible as literature is not an option. It is, after all, a book! Anyway, the good folks at Crossway have decided to do their best to help us understand how a literary view of the Bible is essential. [...]

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ESV Quadruples Sales Growth

July 8, 2007

Crossway Books and Bibles today announced, “Growth of the ESV Bible continues to accelerate . . . worldwide sales and distribution have increased four-fold over the past two years . . . and the ESV moved up to the number three position on the CBA bestseller list in June . . . .” As a [...]

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Cows, Dogs, and Political Correctness – Part Three

August 20, 2006

In this series, so far I have looked at how the Bible uses two Greek words which are often translated as “man,” and then how lexicons describe what those words mean. The reason I have been speaking about this is the drive by some Bible translations to comply with what some would describe as political [...]

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Cows, Dogs, and Political Correctness – Part Two

August 19, 2006

In the first post we began by looking at how two Greek words – anthropos and aner – often translated “man” – are used in the Bible. We will now look at what some of the lexicons say. I consulted all of these in the Logos Bible Software program that I have on special offer [...]

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Cows, Dogs, and Political Correctness – Part One

August 18, 2006

Over on the Better Bibles Blog, I decided to make a comment a few days ago that I knew would be provocative. You see, it seems — at least to my cursory reading of the blog — to be a matter of faith among some people over there that the Greek word ἄνθρωπος (anthropos) never [...]

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Scripture Cannot Be Broken – T4G Statement

June 8, 2006

The Authority and Inerrancy of the Bible T4G Statement, Articles I and II Article IWe affirm that the sole authority for the Church is the Bible, verbally inspired, inerrant, infallible, and totally sufficient and trustworthy. We deny that the Bible is a mere witness to the divine revelation, or that any portion of Scripture is [...]

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Blogspotting the ESV, interviews and other posts

December 27, 2005

I am enjoying the christmas break, but as a compulsive blogger how can I resist the urge to at least do a quick “blogspotting” post? Its been quite a while since my last. Popularised by The Curator blogspotting is quite simply a way of thanking other bloggers for taking notice of this one. So what [...]

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Anti-ESV Politicking

December 19, 2005

Parableman has an interesting post about the way ESV and TNIV advocates tend to talk past each other without understanding. Essentially these two translations differ because their aim is different. The TNIV aims to translate the sense or meaning of the bible into todays languange, whilst the ESV aims to translate the actual form or [...]

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Tim is growing to love the ESV

November 16, 2005

Tim has a great post where he is being the Tim we all love. He shares his thoughts from his reading of the ESV Old Testament, and shows in detail the weakness of some of the other translations. He concludes: “As I indicated earlier, I was grateful this morning that I have access to such [...]

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Which bible translation is the Bloggers favorite?

October 17, 2005

I thought I’d try a little experiment today. Searching Google Blogsearch for the acronyms of bible translations, then ranking them by number of hits. In the blogosphere we can become so insular and read only blogs that agree with us. As a result I might for example come to the conclusion that the ESV was [...]

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