Today's New International Version
The more modern version of the NIV
Today's New International Version (TNIV) is an English translation of the Bible which was developed by the International Bible Society based on the previous New International Version (NIV) originally published in 1978. It is explicitly Protestant like its predecessor; the deuterocanonical books are not part of this translation. The TNIV New Testament was published in March 2002. The complete Bible was published in February 2005. The rights to the text are owned by Biblica (formerly the International Bible Society). Zondervan published the TNIV in North America. Hodder & Stoughton published the TNIV in Europe.
A team of 13 translators worked on the translation, with forty additional scholars reviewing the translation work. The team was designed to be cross-denominational.
In 2011, sales of both the 1984 edition of the NIV and the TNIV were discontinued, following the release of a revised and updated version of the NIV.
Translation philosophy
The translation took more than a decade to complete; 13 evangelical scholars worked on the translation: Ronald F. Youngblood, Kenneth L. Barker, John H. Stek, Donald H. Madvig, R. T. France, Gordon Fee, Karen H. Jobes, Walter Liefeld, Douglas J. Moo, Bruce K. Waltke, Larry L. Walker, Herbert M. Wolf and Martin Selman.
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