{"id":2840,"date":"2010-11-03T07:50:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T15:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2010-11-03T07:50:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T15:50:59","slug":"the-niv-reloaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2010\/11\/03\/the-niv-reloaded","title":{"rendered":"the NIV reloaded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/29968788@N00\/2227885657\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2392\/2227885657_25a043b6e5_m.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"Bible Study 2\" title=\"Bible Study 2\" hspace=\"5\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" class=\"right\"><\/a>I sent an email to <a href=\"http:\/\/xastanford.org\/\">my stu\u00addents<\/a> and it occurred to me that it might be of more gen\u00ader\u00adal inter\u00adest:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chi Alphans,<\/p>\n<p>You might be inter\u00adest\u00aded to know that the NIV trans\u00adla\u00adtion of the Bible has been revised. You can\u2019t buy it in stores yet, but it is avail\u00adable online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/niv\/executive-summary\/\">biblegateway.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think you\u2019ll find the trans\u00adla\u00adtor\u2019s notes inter\u00adest\u00ading. They include a sec\u00adtion on lan\u00adguage and gen\u00adder and also have a list of key pas\u00adsages that have changed in the newest trans\u00adla\u00adtion. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/niv\/Translators-Notes.pdf\">http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/niv\/Translators-Notes.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And while I\u2019m on the sub\u00adject of new releas\u00ades of the Bible (which is a weird sen\u00adtence), I should men\u00adtion that there is a new, aca\u00add\u00ade\u00adm\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly legit com\u00adpi\u00adla\u00adtion of the Greek New Tes\u00adta\u00adment avail\u00adable at <a href=\"http:\/\/sblgnt.com\/\">http:\/\/sblgnt.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Final\u00adly, remem\u00adber that every trans\u00adla\u00adtion opti\u00admizes some things at the expense of oth\u00aders. There is no \u201cbest\u201d trans\u00adla\u00adtion. It\u2019s far more impor\u00adtant you read what\u00adev\u00ader you have than that you engage in some fruit\u00adless quest for the ide\u00adal. In oth\u00ader words, your exist\u00ading NIV will do just fine from now until you die.<\/p>\n<p>Glen<\/p>\n<p>P.S. There is no \u201cbest trans\u00adla\u00adtion\u201d but there is an option you might not have con\u00adsid\u00adered \u2014 you can learn to read the Bible in its orig\u00adi\u00adnal lan\u00adguages. It\u2019s not for every\u00adone, but just think of it: you can earn Stan\u00adford cred\u00adits while grow\u00ading in your under\u00adstand\u00ading of God\u2019s Word \u2014 it\u2019s a twofer!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sent an email to my stu\u00addents and it occurred to me that it might be of more gen\u00ader\u00adal inter\u00adest: Chi Alphans, You might be inter\u00adest\u00aded to know that the NIV trans\u00adla\u00adtion of the Bible has been revised. You can\u2019t buy it in stores yet, but it is avail\u00adable online at biblegateway.com I think you\u2019ll \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2010\/11\/03\/the-niv-reloaded\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cthe NIV reloaded\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-JO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2846,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions\/2846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}