Your favourite Paraphrased Version.

I even heard that in early versions of the living bible there was a phrase which sounded more or less like..."you son of a bi..."

My opinion...why should I worry with pharaprases from bibles that are NOT Gods word?

Sorry, can't join you in this one

 

Hi Ben W! Greetings from Texas!

I'll join you on this one!

I don't use paraphrases that much, but my favorite is The New Testament In Modern English by J.B. Phillips aka "Phillips". I don't use it for serious study, but use it occasionally for devotional reading.

 

o mine's gotta be the KJB1611!

where else wld u have such ripe phrases like "p*sseth against the wall," "G-d save the king," n "G-d forbid"?

it's difficult to get any nearer to what KJBO D.A. Waite calls "perfect 1611 parlance" (http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/fourfold.htm&e=747)!

 

Arubian Baptist said:

I even heard that in early versions of the living bible there was a phrase which sounded more or less like...

. . . "Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman" (1 Sam 20:30 KJV).

 

Watch out Ben W! You've opened the door wide open for our King James Only friends! Don't be surprised if you don't get an anwer to your question, but rather a lecture on the inferiority of all non-KJV versions.

 

That's pretty much what Elijah said in the Hebrew. "Is your god out covering his feet?" ("covering his feet" in this context means that he had his britches down. )

 

Ben W said:

And the bit about the prophets of baal and baal being preoccupied on the toilet

Yeah, I always loved that part; Taylor nailed Elijah's jeering in that passage. (From what I can understand, the Hebrew is a bit difficult there and that could be an accurate paraphrase, too.)

My personal favourite is J. B. Phillips' translation, particularly that of the epistles of Paul. He brings out the fact that they are, actually, personal letters.

 

My favorite is Eugene Peterson's, "The Message".

It is certainly a paraphrase, but Peterson worked closely with the Greek and Hebrew to make it very accurate. A friend of mine who is an expert on classical Greek and Latin (teaches at Dartmouth) has been very impressed with Peterson's New Testament work.

 

Ditto for me here. Phillips translation will always have a place in my heart...I was saved while reading through it.

-kman

 

Phillips for me, too. Just wish he had done so with the OT too. NLT is still a paraphrase in my mind. Message is so-so.

 

I make it a practice to stay away from the paraphrases - referring to one of them only occasionally. I use mainly literal translations, with an occasional dynamic equivalence version thrown in for good measure...definitely not a KJVO person.

 

yes, that was exactly the verse I was reffering to, indeed they changed it later in the way you qouted it.

But before, according to what I have read, it was thou son of a ..... (Female doggie?)

 

When my sister (Peggy, who is now a Wycliffe translator bringing God's preserved word, though not KJV, to the Mazatec-speaking people of southern Mexico) was a student at Wheaton, she got a summer job at Tyndale House, and came thereby into the present she gave me the following Christmas, to wit, a nice padded-green-covered "Living Bible" which had been bound upside down by mistake (and hence discarded). This was my first real introduction to Biblical paraphrases, and I was not greatly impressed. I do remember, though, and am still greatly amused at the recollection, a footnote to the story of the LORD's/angels' visit to Abe and Sarah prior to the obliteration of Sodom. In Taylor's rewrite, Abraham says (as I recall; it's been a few years since I looked) "Quick, Sarah, whip up some pancakes!" And then there's a footnote on the word "pancakes", and the footnote, which makes the whole passage memorable, reads "Probably some sort of tortilla"!!

Obviously written for folks who'd never seen matzoh.

Haruo

 

Just started reading Goodspeed so far so good. Phillips is fine as is the Living Bible. The Message would probably be at the top right now but I haven't finished with Goodspeed. I would not echo the words of Tom concerning the NLT. Although it is translation that is free in expression it is still a translation not a paraphrase. But I understand the thinking Tom is coming from and respect his opinion.

 

I've never seen Goodspeed referred to as a paraphrase as opposed to a translation before. How do you come to place it in this category?

The Message I would say is clearly a paraphrase, or even a rewrite or something, and while it's probably a good indicator of what Eugene Peterson thinks the text is about, it's about two steps further removed, I think, from that text than is the original Taylor LB.

Haruo

 

I don't care for paraphrases. If someone is saved through one, wonderful, but a more accurate translation would be better to understand what God wanted to tell you. There is always the tendency for a paraphraser to insert his/her own opinions and interpretations in a passage, and this can be dangerous to someone who does not understand the difference between a paraphrase and God's word.

Many times, a paraphrase unnecessarily complicates a passage such as this one from the "Message."

1Co 13:13 But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.

Here is a comparison to the ASV:

1Co 13:13 But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

and the KJV:

1Co 13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.

Jason