Zondervan Bible Translation Chart

I'm a translation geek ... I love them all. Well except Kings James, but that's just because I don't speak old world English, nor do I understand it very well. And I do think that we've made some advancements in the last couple of hundred years when it comes to how well we can translate the Scriptures from their original languages .. but I digress.

All I really wanted to point out to you today was Zondervan's Bible translation page. Its a really neat page that points out how different translations of the Bible compare to each other from a thought for thought perspective to a word for word perspective.

Perhaps this is not an absolutely authoritative picture of how the different translations compare to one another, but personally, I would lean towards Zondervan's explanation over what the common lay person might tell me, and certainly over what I understand myself. After all, at least the folks at Zondervan are in the Bible publishing business.