A Change of Plans
I had mentioned that I would read through the NLT in one year. It began to dawn on me, however, that if I do that for each translation, it will be years before I am able to get through them all. I do not want to assume that I have that much time granted to me and I don’t want it to be years before I try the TNIV, NET, the second edition of the HCSB, and any other new translations that come out this decade. So I am going to shift and only read the New Testament. This way I can read two or three translations in one year and I think still have a good feel for the translation. So, just an update about that. Right now I am reading the NLT and ESV in the New Testament. I think I will have them completed in a couple months and will begin another translation in the summer.
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Joe
January 15, 2009 at 11:30 am
Sounds like a good plan Brent and maybe more useful to bring out inconsistencies with what we are to teach and practice today also.
So next will be TNIV and NET?
Brent Kercheville
January 15, 2009 at 12:15 pm
That will be the tentative plan. But if the revised HCSB comes out by then, I will have to save the TNIV or NET for another time.
Joe
January 15, 2009 at 1:48 pm
That would be nice. Hopefully we will get some word somewhere from someone ;-)
Robert Jimenez
January 16, 2009 at 1:36 am
Brent, I did that with the HCSB (some OT), I’ve yet to read the entire OT out of the HCSB. I have read a good portion of the NT out of the NLT, and a few of Paul’s writings out of the NET.
This year I am reading through the whole bible as I have not read the entire OT a several years. I tend to just read the NT several times a year.