"Why, oh why....?" In a word, Marketing!
The NIV was very effectively marketed by the publishers. As a result, many evangelical churches bought into the NIV, and have it as their pew Bibles. As an evangelical myself, I am not "over the moon" about this, because it put a substantial section of the evangelical constituency in hoc to a commercial publisher! This apart from any arguments relating to translational principles, and choice of Greek text, etc, which would be "off-topic" here. The effectiveness of the marketing drive led to decisions being made by many churches without due consideration of the theological principles at stake. David Haslam Barry Drake-4 wrote: > > Hi there ....... > > Now - a rant - I see it as a great pity that so many people want the > NIV. As a theologian, I never recommend this translation to my students > as it has a party bias. The entire translation team is from the > evangelical school. The Good News (TEV) and the NRSV are two reliable > unbiased translations that I recommend to my students. Both are > available in Catholic editions or as versions with apocrypha, and the > NRSV especially is a good study bible. The NET bible too is an > excellent translation. Why, oh why do so many people still want the NIV? > > God bless, > Barry > > -- From Barry Drake (The Revd) minister of the Netherfield United > Reformed church, Nottingham see http://www.jesusinnetherfield.org.uk for > our church homepages). > > Replies - b.dr...@ntlworld.com > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Often-requested-yet-never-available-Bibles-tp24651415p24676987.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
