Comments on: NRSV (New Revised Standard Version) http://betterbibles.com/2005/04/08/nrsv-new-revised-standard-version/ ideas for improving Bible translations Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:41:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ryan Carter http://betterbibles.com/2005/04/08/nrsv-new-revised-standard-version/#comment-17463 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:44:03 +0000 http://betterbibles.wordpress.com/2005/04/08/nrsv-new-revised-standard-version/#comment-17463 Rev. 21.3
“mortals” Not really contextually appropriate here, especially since the next verse says that “death will be no more.”

]]> By: Schleitheim | New Revised Standard Version - NRSV http://betterbibles.com/2005/04/08/nrsv-new-revised-standard-version/#comment-13536 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:49:53 +0000 http://betterbibles.wordpress.com/2005/04/08/nrsv-new-revised-standard-version/#comment-13536 [...] see the comments at the Better Bibles Blog NRSV entry. Very [...]

]]> By: Aaron Rendahl http://betterbibles.com/2005/04/08/nrsv-new-revised-standard-version/#comment-9611 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:29:00 +0000 http://betterbibles.wordpress.com/2005/04/08/nrsv-new-revised-standard-version/#comment-9611 Acts 20:12 “Meanwhile they had taken the boy away alive and were not a little comforted.”

Unclear if this means not comforted at all or very comforted.

]]> By: Wayne Leman http://betterbibles.com/2005/04/08/nrsv-new-revised-standard-version/#comment-5235 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:47:00 +0000 http://betterbibles.wordpress.com/2005/04/08/nrsv-new-revised-standard-version/#comment-5235 Is. 60:6 “A multitude of camels shall cover you”

This wording is misleading. It makes it sound like the camels will cover the people, but reference to the people is synecdoche for the entire land.

]]> By: Wayne Leman http://betterbibles.com/2005/04/08/nrsv-new-revised-standard-version/#comment-102 Sun, 17 Apr 2005 14:28:00 +0000 http://betterbibles.wordpress.com/2005/04/08/nrsv-new-revised-standard-version/#comment-102 Ps. 55:1 “Give ear to my prayer”

“Give ear to” is obsolescent English. I have never heard any fluent English speaker in my lifetime (I qualify for AARP discounts) speak or write “give ear to.”

Proper English today is:

“Listen to my prayer”

]]> By: Wayne Leman http://betterbibles.com/2005/04/08/nrsv-new-revised-standard-version/#comment-79 Sat, 16 Apr 2005 22:35:00 +0000 http://betterbibles.wordpress.com/2005/04/08/nrsv-new-revised-standard-version/#comment-79 Matt. 21:5 “the daughter of Zion”

See comment under NASB.

]]> By: Wayne Leman http://betterbibles.com/2005/04/08/nrsv-new-revised-standard-version/#comment-36 Tue, 12 Apr 2005 03:32:00 +0000 http://betterbibles.wordpress.com/2005/04/08/nrsv-new-revised-standard-version/#comment-36 Gen. 4:1 see comment under ESV

]]> By: Wayne Leman http://betterbibles.com/2005/04/08/nrsv-new-revised-standard-version/#comment-30 Tue, 12 Apr 2005 00:54:00 +0000 http://betterbibles.wordpress.com/2005/04/08/nrsv-new-revised-standard-version/#comment-30 Rom. 1:5 “the obedience of faith”

It is not clear from this English what meaning is intended. This phrase would not be written or spoken in any standard dialect of English. Several other recent English versions use this same literalism which does not communicate the original Greek meaning well to English speakers, e.g. NASB, NAB, NJB, NET, ISV, HCSB, ESV.

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