New American Standard Bible 2020 Update

I didn't think it would be available until April 2020, so thank you for that!

 

Yes, but not when some revisions just want to open up can of worms on gender inclusive translation,m as in Niv 2011!

 

NIV 2011 is my favorite translation, and I see no problem with gender inclusive language.

 

Are any of you actually looking forward to the NASB 2020 update, or is everyone here opposed to the update?

I'm simply curious about that. Thank you.

 

Thanks! It's nice to know I'm not alone on this update.

 

I am leery about the NASB update because some of the changes seem questionable to me. But I remain hopeful the finished work will be an improvement.

 

The main reason I'm looking forward to the NASB 2020 update is that I'm discovering more and more just how "wooden" it is!

It would be nice if they could make the NASB a little more like the ESV.

It's taken some time, but I'm finally beginning to prefer the ESV to the NASB.

Reading the NASB aloud to others? It's not a translation that holds people's attention, if you know what I mean.

 

Not looking forward to it. Really could care less, I suppose. Bibles are updated so frequently nowadays it is not even news anymore. I own a NASB Ryrie Study Bible but I never look at it. If I want to look at an NASB reading, I look on Bible Gateway online. I suppose at some point, though, BG will update theirs to the 2020.

I guess on this I look at it as if the NASB loses it wooden literalness to become like all the other translation modernizations, what need is there for it, after all?

 

I appreciate the fact that your comments are always honest and forthright, without being argumentative or disrespectful.

 

Thanks. It can be difficult to come across the way you intend in type on discussion boards.

To add to what I said about the NASB, to me it has a niche it fits in currently, which it likely will be losing. It does seem that a lot of the revisionism is driven by sales.

 

Actually the update that is available from Zondervan in February are more editions of the NASB95. The 2020 text will not actually be available for purchase until Spring 2021 and that is just an estimate.

 

Oh, I agree. The NASB is not a best selling translation, that's for certain.

 

Thanks for clearing that up for us. I thought the earlier release date seemed a bit "too good to be true!"

 

Had to go back and edit my post. Somehow I had "a niche it fixes it" instead of "a niche it fits in."

There is a short somewhere between my brain and the computer screen!

 

You know, as strange as it may sound, I'm a little envious of the tremendous success Crossway has had almost from the beginning, with the publication of the ESV translation.

And in turn, I feel rather bad about the fact that sales of the Lockman Foundation's NASB translation have seen a steady decline.

Almost as if the success of the ESV has lead directly to the failure of the NASB to correspondingly "keep up," so to speak.

 

The ESV is better anyway

 

Somehow, I knew you were going to say that! Lol

 

Remember, Crossway had lots of $$$ when it decided to go into the Bible business: it'd cleaned up as publisher of Frank Peretti’s ‘spiritual warfare’ fiction bestsellers!

Also, the National Council of Churches was having major financial problems at the time, so Crossway was able to negotiate a very good deal on the right to adapt the NCC's RSV: a big lump sum payment which enabled the National Council of Churches to survive, but was much less than Crossway would have paid them in typical royalties over the course of the first ten year contract.

 

Wow. I was not aware of all this going on behind the scenes! I really appreciate your bringing all these relevant facts to my attention, because this really explains a lot, regarding the rapid, incredible success of the ESV. Unfortunately, money does, indeed, "make the world go round."