How to Choose a Translation for All Its Worth

by Gordon Fee

  • Year 2007
  • Type Book
  • Genre biblical studies
  • Tradition Pentecostal
  • Original language English

For For readers choosing or comparing English Bible translations; not a technical treatise on translation theory.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
4 of 5 strongly recommended
For the researcher
2 of 5 useful
Difficulty
1 of 5 light

Written with Mark L. Strauss: a plain guide to how Bible translations are made and why they differ, to help readers choose and use them.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 1 of 5
  • Scriptural 4 of 5
  • Experiential 0 of 5
  • Sociological 1 of 5
  • Historical 2 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

A short guide to English Bible translations written with Mark L. Strauss and published by Zondervan in 2007, as a companion to How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth. Both authors had served on Bible translation committees; Fee was a member of the Committee on Bible Translation responsible for the NIV and TNIV. The book explains how translations are made, why they differ in their treatment of words, idioms and gender language, and how readers can choose and use translations.

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