Friday, February 27, 2004

Thoughts on Bible Translations

No, not my thoughts. Instead, my 7 year old daughter's thoughts. She was going through my library and found a Hebrew Bible. So she asks me if there are various versions of the Hebrew, like there are versions like the NIV. I explained about translations into English and different manuscript families in the original languages. So now she wants to know which English translation is closest to the Hebrew Bible. Yes, she actually asked this. So I explained some details of dynamic vs formal equivalence. I wonder what she'll be like when she's 8 years old. She'll probably ask me for a NASB!

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