I Never Thought I'd Shelf My...

1. I never thought I'd shelf my NASB for another version, but the HCSB is coming rather close.

2. For the last few weeks, I've been looking at the HCSB closely, consulting the Greek and so on, and I find it quite faithful to the text and even does a better job than the NASB.

3. Of course, I've found a few things I didn't like, but only minor: 1. I still prefer saying Brethren than brothers when referring to the entire congregation, so the NASB wins here; 2. HCSB should have kept "justified" at Rom 5:1 rather than its rendering---because of their translation of dikaioo in chps 3 and 4.

4. For some odd reason, in their reference Bible, in the Psalter, they have no reference to "lifting hands."

5. At Heb 12:16 HCSB translate pornos as "immoral," the masculine form of porne, which HCSB translates prostitute in 1 Cor 6:15. Who is an "immoral" person?

6. HCSB gets an A+ for translating doulos and its cognates as "slave" and so on. The NASB fails here for me, only translating doulos slave when they have no choice, but would rather use "bond-servant" on most occasions.

My review for now of the HCSB against the NASB.

 

I plan to go through the Bible this upcoming year with the HCSB. I'm very fond of it.

 

Compare Ps 141:2 in the NASB reference Bible with the HCSB reference Bible:

NASB 141:2 references 1 Tim 2:8 and the HCSB has no cross-reference. Sorry I wasn't clear enough.

 

Rob,

Thanks for that reference on Ps 28:2; I'll check it out. I guess I need to stick to my domain--Greek. :laugh:

 

However, they did something quite unusual at Ps 28:2: the reference is at the end of the verse in my HCSB and not at the beginning or end of "when I lift up my hands."

 

For example, on Wednesday nights I'm teaching Jude, so I'm using the Greek and so on, as I prepare my outline. Well, at verse 12 my NASB has "autum trees" while my HCSB has "late autum trees." To settle it, I consulted my BDAG and for the Greek it has "later autum," as well as Schreiner, Moo and Bauckham in their respective commentaries.

So they all favored the HCSB rendering.

 

Well, I went back to Ps 28:2 in my NASB and there are 3 cross-references against the HCSB's one cross-reference at the end of the verse.

NASB has the first one at "lift up my hands" whereas the HCSB has only one and it is at the end of the verse.

 

After reconsidering the NASB's reference work against the HCSB, I want to believe the editors had a bias, which affected the cross-reference on "lifting hands/raising hands."

 

Well, I've come to a decision: I'll consult the HCSB, but I must stick to my NASB for now. :thumbs:

 

Rev 22:14 is not a translation issue but a textual critic issue--"those who wash their robes?" Or "those who keep Him commandments?"