June 22, 2009
In a post today John says:
If you want to pick an argument with me, tell me why NRSV, ESV, TNIV, NLT – pick your poison – is poorly conceived, dangerous, or otherwise too flawed to recommend to others.
At one level, John is quite right: any and all of these translations can have a place in [...]
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June 11, 2009
I’ve been reflecting again on 2 Tim 3:16-17, outside the context of arguments over inspiration, infallibility, authority and all the other stuff for which the verse is mainly used as a text-bomb. I can see arguments for the NRSV translation that all this is “so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped [...]
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