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I noticed that Crossway made a decision at one point to have the ESV translation perpetual and Crossway soon after retracted this decision. Their letter of retraction can be found here.
I understand why they wanted to make the 2016 ESV translation perpetual, it is nice to not have to worry about edition dates with holding a class and everyone brings their ESV bibles to follow along. Many Christians find comfort in the KJV and NKJV knowing that they aren't going to have an update every few years. The ESV is, understandably, a very popular choice among Christians.
This retraction statement does make me wonder if there is some translations in the ESV that many have an issue with though. Or if there is something more to it like copywrite ownership stuff, the dollar, or even bowing to culture demands, rather than just keeping the text open incase more ancient texts are found in the future. Maybe it is all in good faith instead rather than something shady and I am just being silly.
I did find this chart they put together that shows the changes of the 2016 update vs the previous text. However, that doesn't mean someone may not like some other translated scripture not in this list that was left alone they may want to comment about.
Fast forward to 2024 and Wayne Grudem states in an interview here ""I’m on the translation committee for the English Standard Version Bible. And we meet every 5-7 years to consider any possible revisions to the text. We haven’t met now for nine years. So we’re meeting in Wheaton, Ill., in July to consider 120-or-so suggested changes. I suspect we’ll accept 30 or 40 of those suggestions where just little tweaks to the wording make it consistent with where we’ve translated the same phrase elsewhere or something like that. Very small changes—hardly noticeable—but we feel a responsibility as the translation committee to take seriously any suggestions that people have sent."" One may be interested in reading the rest of the interview to get an idea on what is on his mind as some of the questions asked touches on politics and potiental harmful teachings creeping into the church.
> How do you feel about the ESV and the Statements made by Crossway whether it be for 2016 ESV being a Permanent Text Edition (2016) or the retraction of this statement?
> And how do you feel about this recent interview in regard to all of this?
I understand why they wanted to make the 2016 ESV translation perpetual, it is nice to not have to worry about edition dates with holding a class and everyone brings their ESV bibles to follow along. Many Christians find comfort in the KJV and NKJV knowing that they aren't going to have an update every few years. The ESV is, understandably, a very popular choice among Christians.
This retraction statement does make me wonder if there is some translations in the ESV that many have an issue with though. Or if there is something more to it like copywrite ownership stuff, the dollar, or even bowing to culture demands, rather than just keeping the text open incase more ancient texts are found in the future. Maybe it is all in good faith instead rather than something shady and I am just being silly.
I did find this chart they put together that shows the changes of the 2016 update vs the previous text. However, that doesn't mean someone may not like some other translated scripture not in this list that was left alone they may want to comment about.
Fast forward to 2024 and Wayne Grudem states in an interview here ""I’m on the translation committee for the English Standard Version Bible. And we meet every 5-7 years to consider any possible revisions to the text. We haven’t met now for nine years. So we’re meeting in Wheaton, Ill., in July to consider 120-or-so suggested changes. I suspect we’ll accept 30 or 40 of those suggestions where just little tweaks to the wording make it consistent with where we’ve translated the same phrase elsewhere or something like that. Very small changes—hardly noticeable—but we feel a responsibility as the translation committee to take seriously any suggestions that people have sent."" One may be interested in reading the rest of the interview to get an idea on what is on his mind as some of the questions asked touches on politics and potiental harmful teachings creeping into the church.
> How do you feel about the ESV and the Statements made by Crossway whether it be for 2016 ESV being a Permanent Text Edition (2016) or the retraction of this statement?
> And how do you feel about this recent interview in regard to all of this?
