? About NASB vs ESV.

[pilgrim3970]

in my opinion the very BEST study Bible is the Spirit of the Reformation which only comes in NIV. With that kind of packaging, it will keep selling well.

Well, let's start a letter writing campaign to Zondervan and convince them to introduce a NASB Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible (that would about be the perfect study Bible)!

The congregation I serve uses the NIV so that is what I currently use on the occassions that I am called upon to preach. There was a point where a decision was made to move to a modern translation from the AV which was being used for the lectionary readings. I had hoped to shift towards the ESV but most all use the NIV so that is what we ended up with.

As far as what I use to study with, it is a toss up between the ESV and NASB. I have a ESV RSB but I find myself frequently drifiting back to the NASB (which I've never really found cumbersome to read). I suppose this is because the NASB was the version I was introduced to when I came to the reformed faith making this the version I cut my reformed teeth on.

 

[Contra Marcion]

Another problem with the ESV (first problem I noted in my first comment about the verses running into each other in paragraph form, making it difficult to easily point out individual verses like the NASB) is that verses that are questionable in the manuscripts are left out of the main text body but are footnoted below (e.g. Mark 11:26). This is where the NIV committee, I believe, did a better job by bracketing those questionable verses but still kept them as part of the main text body.

Have you tried the ESV Single-column reference Bible? It's a verse-per-line format, and the calfskin edition is very nice. I have one on my desk right now.

 

[Contra Marcion]

THE ESV IS SUPERIOR BECAUSE...RL Allan makes an edition of it in Highland Goatskin with full leather linings and two ribbon markers!!!

RL Allan only binds the NASB in a pitt minion ed. with red letters (gasp!!!)...too small for me to read.

Too be honest I really like the literal features of the NASB but I get the willies if I take the NASB to a bible study and some one calls on me to read a long passage out loud (bad memories trust me)...the feeling afterwards makes me want to call up and order "Hooked on Phonics".

Amen! I LOVE my Allan's ESV bible!

 

[heartoflesh]

I just have to ask: What part of the NASB is unreadable?

I myself have never had any trouble with it and frankly don't know what everyone is talking about.

 

[Yodas_Prodigy]

Yoda English

(and yes Fred Greco, I know it has some Yoda English ),

I might have to read that one more.