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Title: Literal Translation of the Bible by Jay P. Green Sr. ISBN: 1-878442-75-9 Publisher: Sovereign Grace Trust Fund Pub. Date: March, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Exceptionally accurate translation of Bible into English.
Comment: Human understanding of Christian truth rests on the Bible. Unfortunately, the last century has seen a flood of translations by those who believe they have the gift of being better able to express what God intended than God.
This has proven to be the mechanism by which groups of humans insert their interpretations of what they think the Bible should say. Thus thousands of words are added, dropped, changed, or deliberately mistranslated, causing problems and confusion not present in the original language.
The corruption of Bible versions such as the NIV, NASB, RS, NKJV, etc., is analyzed in detail in the book "Unholy Hands on the Bible".
The Literal Version translation's reason for existence is to NOT add or subtract meaning from the original language texts. Of course, Hebrew, a somewhat pictoral language, and Greek, are not 1:1 compatible with modern English; punctation, capitalization, and paragraphing not present in the original are all interpretive.
Thus scholars often say that a literal translation would not make sense. While the Literal Version's exceptionally careful rendering into English sometimes results in awkward or grammatically fractured results, you will find the opposite is true; meaning often is more clear in the literal rendering than in the garbled, interpretative paraphrasings negotiated by self-selected committees of people more inspired by modern humanism or doctrinal agenda than anything else.
Chances are, you will end up preferring the Literal Version above all other translations. At least you should!
Note that the Literal Version DOES NOT include the original Hebrew and Greek. The same publisher has a separate Interlinear Bible which DOES contain the original Hebrew and Greek, a word-for-word translation underneath, Strong's numbers above (so you can look up the word in a concordance or lexicon and follow the translator's decsiions) with the Literal Translation on the side. The Interlinear is a big book, so the Literal Version by itself may be more appropriate for day-to-day usage.
Rating: 5
Summary: An extremely reliable and accurate Bible version
Comment: "The Literal Translation of the Bible," as the name implies, follows a literal translation principle. This principle simply believes that EVERY SINGLE WORD in the original Hebrew and Greek texts should be translated. In addition, the grammatical forms of words should also be translated as they are in the original texts. So a noun should be translated as a noun, an adjective as an adjective, etc. Moreover, any words added for clarity should be offset in some way, usually by placing them in italics or brackets.
So a literal translation principle produces a very exact reproduction of what God originally said. And I do believe that this method of translating is the only one which concurs completely with the doctrine of verbal inspiration, i.e. the belief that not just the thoughts or ideas of the Bible are inspired, but the very words and grammatical forms of words themselves. It is for this reason that I have been using the LITV (for "Literal Version") extensively for the past 15 years. It is the ideal type for Bible to use for in-depth, personal Bible study.
If fact, I am so much in favor of a literal translation method that I produced my own literal translation of the New Testament, the "Analytical-Literal Translation" (ALT). But there are two main differences between my ALT and the LITV. First, the LITV is based on the Textus Receptus (TR) while my ALT is based on the Majority Text (MT). These two texts are very similar, much closer to each other than either is to the more popular Critical Text (CT), but there are some significant differences between them. And I favor the MT to the TR, but either of these to the CT.
Second, my ALT has "analytical" features included within brackets within the text to help the reader better understand the text.
I produced my own translation not because I thought there were any problems with the LITV. It is truly an excellent translation. But I wanted a translation with these two features that the LITV lacks.
Now an argument often made against using a literal translation method is that it would be too awkward to read. And yes, the LITV can seem a bit awkward when one first begins reading it, especially if one is used to reading a much less literal version like the NIV. But personally, I never found the LITV to be excessively awkward. And one of the comments I have received about my ALT is that it is surprisingly easy to read. This is probably because the analytical features help to explain difficult passages.
So I wholeheartedly recommend the LITV. Even if it takes a little getting used to, the effort will be worth it. It will enhance your Bible studies significantly. It is truly an extremely reliable and accurate Bible version. And if you want another literal translation to compare it to, I would recommend my ALT. And for further details on these two versions, along with additional information on different translation methods and Greek text-types and reviews of about 30 other versions of the Bible, see my book Differences Between Bible Versions.
Rating: 5
Summary: To duroughjr
Comment: The Witnesses publish The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures and it is from the old koine Greek.
Rob
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Title: The Interlinear Bible: Hebrew/Greek/English by Jay P., Sr. Green ISBN: 1878442821 Publisher: Sovereign Grace Trust Fund Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $84.99 |
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Title: Analytical-Literal Translation of the New Testament of the Holy Bible by Gary F. Zeolla ISBN: 0759624984 Publisher: 1stBooks Library Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $28.04 |
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Title: Interlinear Greek-English New Testament: With Strong's Concordance Numbers Above Each Word by Jay P., Sr Green ISBN: 0801021383 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $36.99 |
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Title: Rotherham Emphasized Bible: A Literal Translation by Joseph B. Rotherham, Kregel Publications ISBN: 082543601X Publisher: Kregel Publications Pub. Date: January, 1980 List Price(USD): $46.99 |
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Title: The Septuagint with Apocrypha: Greek and English by Lancelot C. Brenton ISBN: 0913573442 Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 April, 1986 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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