Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 1079. People ask me what the best Bible translation and the honest answer is that it depends rather a lot on what you are trying to do with it that week. For preaching, teaching, and serious study, I have a clear answer, and I will give it to you directly. For reading through a…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 1023. The ESV translation philosophy is worth understanding on its own terms rather than assuming it works exactly the same way as every other modern English Bible, because the ESV was built around a deliberate, clearly stated set of translation commitments from the outset. I use the ESV as my standard text for preaching,…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 1022. formal equivalence and dynamic equivalence describe two competing philosophies of Bible translation, and understanding the difference will genuinely change how you read the footnotes and prefaces of whatever translation currently sits on your shelf. This is not an argument about which translation is somehow holier than another. It is a careful question about…