Image: Crossway has used a "bandwagon" marketing strategy to promote the ESV among Calvinistic evangelicals.
Image: Here is a parody that appeared on the Confessional Bibliology FB group [Note: I don't do FB, but I have my sources!]. Some other parodies are posted below.
I just posted WM # 58 Reaction: ESV (2016) “Permanent Text Edition” Fail. This episode offers some reaction to and
analysis of Crossway’s announcement yesterday (9.28.16) of the reversal of its
summer 2016 decision to establish a “permanent text” edition of the ESV. In
that announcement, Crossway President and CEO Lane Dennis stated: “We have become convinced that this decision
was a mistake … We apologize for this and for any concern this has caused for
readers of the ESV, and we want to explain what we now believe to be the way
forward. Our desire, above all, is to do
what is right before the Lord.”
Oddly enough, Crossway had apparently made the decision to
establish the “permanent text” of the ESV in emulation of the stability of the
KJV (since the 1769 Blayney edition).
They apparently received some heavy backlash for this decision from their constituency.
Indeed, it does seem odd that Crossway
made this decision given that commitment
to a modern translation based on the ever shifting modern critical texts of the
Hebrew OT and Greek NT must necessarily entail an “open translation” philosophy.
Of course, from my perspective, a stable text of the Bible is
indeed essential. What is key, however,
is not a “permanent text” of an English translation but a stable, reliable,
permanent text of the Bible in the original languages (the Hebrew Masoretic
Text of the OT and the Textus Receptus of the NT).
Here are some sources cited in this episode:
A pdf of my blog
article “Three Challenges to the ESV” and the audio
version.
JTR
Images: More ESV marketing parodies:
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