Preachers use the Bible on a daily basis, yet many know little about the Bible translations they use regularly. In Understanding English Bible Translation (Crossway), Leland Ryken takes the reader on a tour of the background and process of translating the Bible into English, and argues for an essentially literal approach as contrasted with the Dynamic Equivalence model used in the New International Version (NIV). Given his own involvement with the English Standard Version (ESV), the reader won’t be surprised that he comes down on the side of a methodology which produced the ESV, but he makes his case well.
