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A Word to the Reader
Today’s New International Version
(TNIV) is a revision of the New
International Version (NIV). Among the many English versions of the Bible
that appeared in the twentieth century, the NIV (1973, 1978, 1984) has gained
the widest readership in all parts of the English-speaking world. It was a
completely new translation made by over a hundred scholars working directly
from the best available Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek texts. The fact that
participants from the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New
Zealand worked together gave the project its international scope. That they
were from many denominations—including Anglican, Assemblies of God,
Baptist, Brethren, Christian Reformed, Church of Christ, Evangelical
Covenant, Evangelical Free, Lutheran, Mennonite, Methodist, Nazarene,
Presbyterian, Wesleyan and other churches—helped to safeguard the
translation from sectarian bias. Responsibility for the NIV text, and now also
for the text of the TNIV, is held by a self-governing body, the
Committee on
Bible Translation
(CBT), composed of biblical scholars from colleges,
universities and seminaries. During the revision process, many of the original
members of CBT have been replaced by other scholars owing to retirement
and other causes, but a similar geographical and denominational mix has
been maintained.
From the beginning the translators have been united in their commitment to
the authority and infallibility of the Bible as God’s Word in written form. For
them, the Bible contains the divine answer to the deepest needs of humanity,
sheds unique light on our path in a dark world and sets forth the way to our
eternal well-being. Out of this deep conviction, the Committee has held to
certain goals for the NIV and for the present revision: that it would be an
accurate translation and one that would have clarity and literary quality and so
prove suitable for public and private reading, teaching, preaching, memorizing
and liturgical use. The Committee has also sought to preserve a measure of
continuity with the long tradition of translating the Scriptures into English.
There is a sense in which the work of translating the Bible is never finished.
This very fact has prompted the Committee to engage in an ongoing review of
the text of the NIV with the assistance of many other scholars. The chief goal
of this review has always been to bring the text of the NIV abreast of
contemporary biblical scholarship and of shifts in English idiom and usage.
Already in 1978 and again in 1984 various corrections and revisions to the
NIV text were made. In the TNIV the Committee offers to the reading public
the latest fruits of its review.
The first concern of the translators has continued to be the accuracy of the
translation and its faithfulness to the intended meaning of the biblical writers.
This has moved the translators to go beyond a formal word-for-word
rendering of the original texts. Because thought patterns and syntax differ
from language to language, accurate communication of the meaning of the
biblical authors demands constant regard for varied contextual uses of words
and idioms and for frequent modifications in sentence structures.
To achieve clarity the translators have sometimes supplied words not in the
original texts but required by the context. In a few instances, where some
uncertainty about such material remained, it is enclosed in corner brackets.
As an aid to the reader, italicized sectional headings have been inserted.
They are not to be regarded as part of the biblical text and are not intended
for oral reading. It is the Committee’s hope that these headings may prove
more helpful to the reader than the traditional chapter divisions (which were
introduced in the thirteenth century).
For the Old Testament the standard Hebrew text, the Masoretic Text as
published in the latest editions of
Biblia Hebraica,
has been used throughout.
The Masoretic Text tradition contains marginal notations that offer variant
readings. These have sometimes been followed instead of the text itself.
Because such instances involve variants within the Masoretic tradition, they
have not been indicated in the textual notes. In a few cases, words in the
basic consonantal text have been divided differently than in the Masoretic
Text. Such cases are usually indicated in the textual footnotes. The Dead Sea
Scrolls contain biblical texts that represent an earlier stage of the transmission
of the Hebrew text. They have been consulted, as have been the Samaritan
Pentateuch and the ancient scribal traditions concerning deliberate textual
changes. The translators also consulted the more important early versions—
the Greek Septuagint, Aquila, Symmachus and Theodotion, the Latin Vulgate,
the Syriac Peshitta, the Aramaic Targums, and for the Psalms the
Juxta
Hebraica
of Jerome. Readings from the Dead Sea Scrolls, the scribal
traditions and these versions were occasionally followed where the Masoretic
Text seemed doubtful and where accepted principles of textual criticism
showed that one or more of these textual witnesses appeared to provide the
correct reading. In rare cases, the translators have emended the Hebrew text
where it appears to have become corrupted at an even earlier stage of its
transmission. These departures from the Masoretic Text are also indicated in
the textual footnotes. Sometimes the vowel indicators (which are later
additions to the basic consonantal text) found in the Masoretic Text did not, in
the judgment of the translators, represent the correct vowels for the original
text. Accordingly, some words have been read with a different set of vowels.
These instances are usually not indicated in the footnotes.
The Greek text used in translating the New Testament has been an eclectic
one, based on the latest editions of the Nestle-Aland/United Bible Societies’
Greek New Testament. The translators have made their choices among the
variant readings in accordance with widely accepted principles of New
Testament textual criticism. Footnotes call attention to places where
uncertainty remains.
The New Testament authors, writing in Greek, often quote the Old Testament
from its ancient Greek version, the Septuagint. This is one reason why some
of the Old Testament quotations in the TNIV New Testament are not identical
to the corresponding passages in the TNIV Old Testament. Such quotations in
the New Testament are indicated with the footnote “(see Septuagint).”
Other footnotes in this version are of several kinds, most of which need no
explanation. Those giving alternative translations begin with “Or” and
generally introduce the alternative with the last word preceding it in the text,
except when it is a single-word alternative. In poetry quoted in a footnote a
slash mark indicates a line division.
It should be noted that references to diseases, minerals, flora and fauna,
architectural details, clothing, jewelry, musical instruments and other articles
cannot always be identified with precision. Also, linear measurements and
measures of capacity can only be approximated (see Appendix I). The
manner in which Hebrew proper names are to be represented in English has
not become fully standardized. In the TNIV the spelling of many names has
been revised to conform more closely to current scholarly practice and to the
phonetics of the Hebrew originals. A list of such changes can be found in
Appendix II, following the biblical text. A parallel list provides the spelling of
these names in the NIV. Although
Selah,
used mainly in the Psalms, is
probably a musical term, its meaning is uncertain. Since it may interrupt
reading and distract the reader, this word has not been kept in the English
text, but every occurrence has been signaled by a footnote.
Three changes of special note in the TNIV are the frequent substitution of
“Messiah” for the more traditional “Christ,” the replacement of “saints” in most
cases with alternative renderings, and a greater sensitivity to shifts in English
idiom. A word about each is in order.
While “Messiah” (from the Hebrew) and “Christ” (from the Greek) both mean
“Anointed One,” what began as a title full of meaning to the early Jewish
hearers of the gospel tended in the later Greek-speaking churches to become
just another name for Jesus. So where the term is clearly used to designate
the God-sent deliverer of Jewish expectations (primarily in the Gospels and
Acts), it was judged more appropriate to use “Messiah.” However, where this
sense seems less prominent (primarily in the Epistles), the transliteration of
the Greek word (“Christ”) has been retained.
Concerning “saints,” current usage (as reflected in major dictionaries of the
English language) burdens it with meanings that lie outside the sense of the
original-language words. The main Old Testament term that has traditionally
been rendered “saints” refers to those who are faithful to God. The New
Testament term primarily designates those who have become followers of the
Christian Way as people consecrated to God and thus belonging to the Lord
in a special sense.
Although a basic core of the English language remains relatively stable, many
diverse and complex cultural forces continue to bring about subtle shifts in the
meanings and/or connotations of even old, well-established words and
phrases. Among the more programmatic changes in the TNIV are the removal
of nearly all vocative “O”s and the elimination of most instances of the generic
use of masculine nouns and pronouns. Relative to the second of these, the
so-called singular “they/their/them,” which has been gaining acceptance
among careful writers and which actually has a venerable place in English
idiom, has been employed to fill in the vocabulary gap in generic nouns and
pronouns referring to human beings. Where an individual emphasis is
deemed to be present, “anyone” or “everyone” or some other equivalent is
generally used as the antecedent of such pronouns.
Sometimes the chapter and/or verse numbering in English translations of the
Old Testament differs from that found in published Hebrew texts. This is
particularly the case in the Psalms, where the traditional titles are included in
the Hebrew verse numbering. Such differences are marked by asterisks (*) in
the text and informative footnotes set off in a separate line (or lines) at the
bottom of the page. In the New Testament, verse numbers that marked off
portions of the traditional English text not supported by the best Greek
manuscripts are now set alongside the immediately preceding verse numbers
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