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Compact New Living Translation---Perfect size to carry
anywhere
Answers life's puzzling
questions about friends, family, God, and the future.
About the New
Living Translation
The translators
of the New Living Translation set out to render the message of
the original texts of Scripture into clear, contemporary
English. As they did so, they kept the concerns of both
formal-equivalence and dynamic-equivalence in mind. On the one
hand, they translated as simply and literally as possible when
that approach yielded an accurate, clear, and natural English
text. Many words and phrases were rendered literally and
consistently into English, preserving essential literary and
rhetorical devices, ancient metaphors, and word choices that
give structure to the text and provide echoes of meaning from
one passage to the next.
On the other
hand, the NLT translators rendered the message more dynamically
when the literal rendering was hard to understand, was
misleading, or yielded archaic or foreign wording. They
clarified difficult metaphors and terms to aid in the reader's
understanding. The translators first struggled with the meaning
of the words and phrases in the ancient context; then they
rendered the message into clear, natural English. Their goal was
to be both faithful to the ancient texts and eminently readable.
The result is a translation that is both exegetically accurate
and idiomatically powerful.
More than 90 Bible scholars, along with a group of accomplished
English stylists, worked toward that goal. In the end, the NLT
is the result of precise scholarship conveyed in living
language.
“I loved the New Living Translation when it first came out
because it made the Word of God more accessible. We made it our
pew Bible at Grace Pointe. Now that it’s even better for study,
I am anticipating an even greater impact on our congregation!”
K. John Bell
Grace Pointe Church
Naperville and Plainfield, Illinois
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