In case you aren’t aware of it, last month Mark Strauss released an article with suggestions for improvements to the ESV on the web. It weighs in at 32 pages and is an excellent read:
How to Make a Good Translation Better (.pdf)
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There has been quite a bit of discussion over the article over at the Better Bibles Blog where it was released piecemeal and discussed in those various posts. Here’s the post at the BBB that links to each part:
ESV by Mark Strauss: links to each part
Bill Mounce made a post at Zondervan’s Koinonia blog about ETS, and half way through the post made some comments about Strauss’s article. It looks like they are going to have a debate on this whole issue later, but I’m not sure when that will actually occur. You can read Mounce’s post here:
Finally, this morning Mark Strauss posted on the Koinonia blog with some comments about the purpose of his ESV article. After you’ve read it please feel free to comment here, and you can find this latest post here:
December 18, 2008 at 4:07 pm
And the brilliant Dr. Mounce is going to have a lot of convincing to do.