Re: Museum accused of censoring Palestinian exhibition

> Andreas, I am heavily interested in learning if you can tell me
> _where_ are the paragraphs, phrases or words that you suspect for
> having been "edited" ("corrupted") in the NIV!

  I'll back Andreas up to an extent. The NIV does have what most
Christians will agree is a slightly liberal slant. For instance in one
of Paul's Epistles, a condemnation of homosexuality is softened from
what the original text is, and so forth. 

  Overall, however, it is pretty decent. Most of you know I'm not a
liberal, but I still like the NIV's clarity and quality of translation.
The KJV has many many more rendering mistakes than the NIV, simply
because they didn't have as old of manuscripts or as good of scholarship
in 1611. 

  I think many believe the NRSV is the best for translation quality. 

  The really ugly translation is the *T*NIV. "Today's New International
Version" tries to be politically correct by altering clearly gender
specific pronouns, including those referring to God... among many other
changes, which even from a secular view point, are bad just because they
do not stick to the meaning of the original text.

  -Tim

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