Hard to believe that the ESV has gone through yet another revision. What I find interesting is that the ESV is not a new translation but a revision of the RSV so how come they have to keep making revisions? I understand new translations go through revisions but this is not a new translation. What is even more interesting is they call each revision a permanent version, that is, until they revise it again then that becomes a revision. Am I the only one that finds these revisions frustrating?
I understand these revisions do not make earlier versions unusable but I like to have an up to date bible for my primary usage and am getting tired of buying news ones. Maybe I am just cheap. :)
New changes for the ESV in 2016 can be found here. http://www.esv.org/about/pt-changes/
ESV revision again in 2016
Discussion in 'Bible Versions & Translations' started by Robea, Sep 12, 2016.
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Yes we discussed this on another thread:
http://www.baptistboard.com/threads/revision-complete-esv-permanent-text-edition-2016.101010/ -
ok. thanks I must have missed it. How does one delete a thread. I will delete this then\
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No need to delete it as your thoughts match mine! :)
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just did not want to have a duplicate threat if this issue has been exhausted elsewhere.
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There are only fifty or so changes. Maybe just take a sharpie to what they'd gotten wrong and jot the new words in the margin.
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Ya, I suppose. I did notice that in Genesis the change from "for" to "contrary to" was putting into the text what they had footnoted. I haven't gone through all of the changes and they are minor but still. Maybe they are now working on the "essentially" part of literal. :)
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