What the ESV is Good For
It's been a long time since I wrote much about Bible translation, but I thought I'd step up on this one. There has recently been a long series of posts on
Better Bibles Blog containing a paper Mark Strauss presented to the Evangelical Theological Society entitled
"Why The English Standard Version Should Not Become the Standard English Version." There is now a brief
response from
Bill Mounce, the New Testament Chair of the ESV translation committee.
I, on the one hand, agree with Strauss that some of the ESVs decisions make for misleading or awkward English text. On the other hand...
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