Looking for NPP-friendly translation

ittarter said:

Why anyone would want the entire Bible in a 2000-page .docx is beyond me. However, by tomorrow the file should have loaded and I can have a look at Galatians (if I can find it!).

Thanks!

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Another related issue is the pistis Christou ('faith of Christ') debate. Paul several times uses this phrase at key points in his writings and it is linguistically ambiguous as to whether it refers to our faith in Christ ("objective genitive"), or Christ's own faithfulness to God ("subjective genitive"), or even our faith/faithfulness to God like that which Christ had ("adjectival genitive"). There is wide disagreement within the academic community over which of these is the best rendering. The NET Bible translation became the first mainstream English Bible translation to use a subjective genitive translation of this phrase.[15]

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• There is an updated text Edition of the Complete Jewish Bible out since more than a Year, I just got home my cowhide leather bound CJSB (i.e. Study Bible) copy this Tuesday. The updated Bible text is not yet available electronically anywhere:

ittarter said:

Thanks, cyberlizard, for pointing that out. CJB has other issues, in my opinion, but look at how they translate, say, Rom. 3:26
NASB: ...for the demonstration, I say, of [God's] righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

CJB: ...and it vindicates [God's] righteousness in the present age by showing that he is righteous himself and is also the one who makes people righteous on the ground of Yeshua's faithfulness.

Not bad:

cyberlizard said:

complete jewish bible is pretty good in regards to the above issues.

Steve

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• Regarding the NPP, please look at the list I maintain of recommended commentaries: Concisely erudite expositional commentary vols. worth duplicating? - Logos Bible Software Forums ... it's a long thread and I can't edit old comments so I sometimes make a new comment with revisions to my ratings and additions. The ones in bold font are the most recommended ones, but I still haven't really needed to regret any of the purchases I've kept. I could sell a set of Paideia Commentaries on the New Testament to someone interested as I have duplicate copies under Bible Study softwares, I have both partial and almost complete sets. And an I think complete set under Accordance.
  For Romans, from the NPP I use James Dunn's two-volumes of commentaries in the Word Biblical -series, these two volumes I have both in print as well as under WORDsearch.
  For Ephesians, I could research together with someone, even on a distance, using Ernest Bests's volume from 1998 in the International Critical Commentary -series, as well as the T & T Clark Bible Guide from the '90s by the same author.
  For Colossians and the NPP I use James Dunn's volume from 1996 in the New International Greek Testament Commentary -series, which I have both on my BlackBerry Playbook tablet with PlayBook OS 2.0 running Olivetree, as well as separately under Accordance.
  For 1 and 2 Thessalonians I have Victor Furnish's 2002 Abingdon New Testament Commentary -volume under Verbum, although not fully tagged - just most of the Bible verse references showing up in "preferred" English Bible versions (i.e. from the ones I have available under the platform).
• There are many English Bible versions, so to aid looking at the various ones, here's a link to a good post from 2009: Help me choose 4 new bibles
  My most recent comment is found at: what bible translation is most accurate?
• If having great interest in advanced questions and wanting to reveal what scholars and Bible versions are based on on a case-by-case basis, learning some of the original languages could be encouraged, see this great brief thread: Greek and Hebrew Scriptures
  With the pre-requisites I have I'd like to look closer at whether the books of 1 Cor and Eph in the 2003 Edition of the HCSB are translated as the NPP viewpoint would dictate. Other than for those books I actually don't use recent English Bible versions for the Pauline corpus.
  NPP is a viewpoint that can be grasped without knowing Greek though.

Heterodoxus said:

Whether you decide to pursue classroom training or not, I recommend Goodrich's Do It Yourself Hebrew & Greek workbook for persons who have no knowledge of biblical languages but wish to learn. This workbook is, IMO, the closest one can get to either Greek 101 and Hebrew 101 without entering a formal class. With it, you'll jump in up to your ankles, and it makes a transition into advanced learning much easier.

Monce's Basics of Biblical Greek workbook, and Pratico's Basics of Biblical Hebrew workbook are also helpful. All are inexpensive and handy for review. I'd send links, but I not allowed to do that yet.

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If anyone is familiar with the New Perspective on Paul, I'm looking for a decent English translation that reflects it, or at least leaves the text ambiguous enough to be read either way (if that's possible!).

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