Jon Lake
Puritan Board Sophomore
With a little help from my friends on PB, I ordered a NKJV, due to me adjusting to a new med, I have not felt well enough to get "deeply" into it. it is a thinline made by Cambridge so it is a quality binding, I read about 5 chapters from Romans, it flows well, the English is pleasing, I was pleased to read in a book I have on translations that in some cases, it is as accurate as the NASB, I like the footnote that show variants in the CT and MT, I feel some are "spooked" by the use of the TR in the Text proper, a shame really, I am starting to feel that the NKJV may well be a very under-rated Bible. Blessings.
-----Added 12/12/2008 at 09:33:23 EST-----
Little update for all who helped in the selection of a new Bible Translation, I continue to be very pleased with my (our) choice of the NKJV. It is a great translation, (as Fred Greco noted the only flaw being rather shoddy editions in the past, thankfully Cambridge does one and quite well at that), it feels like a Bible that gives a lot of "bang for the buck", with notations on MT and CT variants and not feeling like a parallel edition. Most critics are (oddly) either KJO, or those who feel it is irresponsible to publish a Bible with the TR in the Text-Proper.(Actual words of one critic.) He ignored the footnotes in his review I should add. I have a number of commentaries with the KJV in the text, it works quite well with those. SO, overall, I am becoming a bit of NKJV fan. Blessings.
-----Added 12/12/2008 at 09:33:23 EST-----
Little update for all who helped in the selection of a new Bible Translation, I continue to be very pleased with my (our) choice of the NKJV. It is a great translation, (as Fred Greco noted the only flaw being rather shoddy editions in the past, thankfully Cambridge does one and quite well at that), it feels like a Bible that gives a lot of "bang for the buck", with notations on MT and CT variants and not feeling like a parallel edition. Most critics are (oddly) either KJO, or those who feel it is irresponsible to publish a Bible with the TR in the Text-Proper.(Actual words of one critic.) He ignored the footnotes in his review I should add. I have a number of commentaries with the KJV in the text, it works quite well with those. SO, overall, I am becoming a bit of NKJV fan. Blessings.