Better Bibles Blog

This is a follow-up to my post yesterday The Truth New Testament by Colin Urquhart. Yesterday I introduced this translation to readers here. Today I am reviewing the book and its text. The edition pictured here is the standard version, which, from the online sample, has very few footnotes. I have in my hand a borrowed copy [...]

Dan Wallace has now posted the second part of his review of NIV 2011. This is a follow-up to part 1 which I posted about yesterday. A large proportion of part 2 is in fact an excursus, which might have been better published as a separate essay, “What Makes for an Accurate Translation?” He writes [...]

In a post on my own blog, I argue that The devil isn’t a slanderer, because the Greek word diaballo often translated “slander” doesn’t mean that. Specifically, in English “slander” implies a false accusation, but the Greek word refers to an accusation “without any insinuation of falsehood”. More to the point for better Bible translations, [...]

ABC, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, has published an interesting essay by Bishop N.T. Wright entitled Lost and found in translation: From 1611 to 2011. This includes a well balanced critique of the Tyndale and KJV heritage and some interesting material on Bible translation principles, on which he seems much better informed than many biblical scholars. [...]