@FrankLuke It's been ages and ages, but I finally got around to buying your book. I'm doing last minute preparations and I figured I'd stock up my reading list. Thanks for the links!

@Dan I don't know much about NET, but yes ESV certainly has reformed ... sensitivities shall we say. The translation and editing scholarship is pretty broad actually but it is weighted that way and it's well received from that quarter as a result.

Just the fact that you were even asking that question however raises another one. What does it actually mean for a translation to be "influenced" by a doctrinal tradition? I agree it happens in various ways and to various degrees. But there's an interesting aspect where I also think this is a good thing.

Surely we don't want to make the text say something it doesn't, but we do want it to say whatever it does say with words we can understand. Our theological frameworks do, over time, shape our vocabularies and even use of language in general. Words and even grammar structures come to have associations they wouldn't have otherwise.

@Caleb very true, i don't mind wording things in such a way to make sense to various traditions, so long as it is faithful to the original text. My problem is explaining away things that are generally clear

@JonEricson Thanks, Jon!

Many days I wish I could just be a full-time writer (fic and nonfic). I have more ideas than time. Yesterday, I saw a call for authors in an anthology. You had to pitch three ideas within the theme (the supernatural in Colorado) to the editor. I did. She liked one, and I just have to write the story now. It's a Sidhe (Irish fair-folk) story based on the ghost lights of Silver Cliff, CO.

@Dan I've seen some of those. The Purified Version is one. It actually uses "grape juice" at the wedding in Cana. This makes the ending a head scratcher. "Most hosts serve the best wine first, but you have saved the best grape juice until the end."

Welcome, Kathy!