NIV Holy Bible - Anglicised Black Gift and Award

by Anonymous

With over 400 million Bibles in print, the New International Version is the world's most popular modern English Bible. It is renowned for its combination of reliability and readability. Fully revised and updated for the first time in 25 years, the NIV is ideal for personal reading, public teaching and group study.This Bible also *Clear, readable 7.25pt text *easy-to-read layout *shortcuts to key stories, events and people of the Bible *reading plan *quick links to find inspiration and help from the Bible in different life situations.British Text This edition uses British spelling, punctuation and grammar to allow the Bible to be read more naturally. More about the translation This revised and updated edition of the NIV includes three main types of change, taking into account changes in the way we use language day to day; advances in biblical scholarship and understanding; and the need to ensure that gender accurate language is used, to faithfully reflect whether men and women are referred to in each instance. The translators have carefully assessed a huge body of scholarship, as well as inviting peer submissions, in order to review every word of the existing NIV to ensure it remains as clear and relevant today as when it was first published. Royalties from all sales of the NIV Bible help Biblica, formerly the International Bible Society, in their work of translating and distributing Bibles around the world.

Genres: Religion

960 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2011

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Reviews

[Eric Sullenberger · Rating 5 out of 5]

To be clear I am reviewing the translation and the audiobook version of it (I accessed both through the YouVersion Bible app). I might be a little biased because the NIV is the first translation I used when I really started to read the Bible on my own. I had a KJV before that, but it was obviously difficult. I had dabbled in the GNT & NIV b fore that, but got my own copy in the summer before 9th grade and consumed the New Testament and a third of the Old Testament pretty quickly. Although it isn't a literal enough, or precise enough, translation from here to do my deeper studies from, I have always enjoyed the readability of the NIV. A few years ago I finally read through the Bible for the first time, and I did it with a reading plan to do so in one year. I have used a different reading plan and a different translation each year. This is the fifth time I've gotten through that process. I usually start out the year a little behind, and then make up ground during the summer (between teaching each school year) and manage to finish early in the fall. This year is actually the best I've done with being consistent, and it just happens at the reading plan gave me a day off that I didn't take, which allowed me to get way ahead [49-Week Challenge https://www.bible.com/reading-plans/1...]. In listening to the NIV in the app there were three different narration versions available. One of them was way too dry and tall, I don't remember the issue with the second, and the third which was dramatized buy a full cast (which I normally dislike an audiobooks, but have found I really like in listening to the Bible). However, I couldn't stand the full cast version because of the accent that Jesus had. Really wanting to read the NIV, I switched over to the Anglicized versions, and found that I enjoyed a British accent reading me the bible. The only annoying thing about it, was the tendency to mispronounce things (or at least pronounce them in different than American English), like "eye-z eye-uh" for Isaiah and many others. Beyond that I didn't notice significant differences, especially since the NIV chooses to use original measurement units (and then have Imperial/English and/or Metric conversions as footnotes). It won't replace my study Bible but I'm happy to have finally finished this translation 26 years after I started reading it in earnest. Because of the readers of given the option I would call this a 9 out of 10 / 4.5 out of 5, but I have no problem rounding up for this translation.

[Anna Karoline · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome

[Hazel]

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[Marian Beaman · Rating 5 out of 5]

All my life, the King James Version has been my version of choice for Bible reading. When our church began an initiative in January 2024 to read the Bible cover to cover, our pastor introduced us to the New International Version of the inspired Scriptures. While the NIV is quite readable, I still prefer the familiar cadences of the King James Version extolling the beauty of various literary types, including poetry, parable, history, and prophecy.

[Charlotte Coyne]

Second book read as part of Steve Donoghue's Western Canon Starter Kit :D

Yeah, as I said before, the Bible probably shouldn't be read cover to cover in a short amount of time haha!