PropertyValue
?:author
?:datePublished
  • 2015-07-13 (xsd:date)
?:headline
  • Did HarperCollins Remove 45 Complete Verses from the NIV Bible? (en)
?:inLanguage
?:itemReviewed
?:mentions
?:reviewBody
  • On 11 July 2015, musician Erica Campbell shared a meme on Facebook claiming that 45 complete verses and 64,575 words had been removed from the New International Version Bible (NIV) — as compared to other versions, such as the King James Bible — by publisher HarperCollins: While it's true that the arrangement and translation of some verses presented in the NIV Bible differ from those found in the King James Bible or other versions of the holy book, that phenomenon does not indicate an effort on the part of HarperCollins (who bought the NIV Bible's original publishing house, Zondervan, in 1988) to entirely eliminate those verses from the Bible. There is, of course, no single original Bible. What we now know as the Bible is a compilation of various manuscripts written in different times and places, all subject to the vagaries of variation and translation (and editorial decisions, mostly made long ago, about which material is to be considered biblical and which is not): Many structural differences can be found between the NIV Bible and the King James Bible (and other versions of the Bible). Zondervan has explained that this is because they have attempted to make a distinction, through the use of footnotes, between verses present in the oldest extant manuscripts of biblical material (which were unknown at the time the King James translation was prepared) and verses that only appeared in later manuscripts: The NIV editors emphasized that their translation was prepared by a self-governing Committee on Bible Translation comprising 15 religious scholars, not by the publishing house itself: It is true, however, that not everyone has been pleased with changes made to the NIV in recent years, and some have felt they were made for financial reasons. (en)
?:reviewRating
rdf:type
?:url