This page was migrated in July 2022 from my older website, biblicalambiguities.net.
24 July 2022
The New International Version or NIV is the most-sold biblical translation of the evangelical world, appearing in 1978 and with its most significant editions in 1984 and 2011. It is my general sense that its position in the conservative evangelical world is not as strong now as it once was, with competitors like the NKJV, ESV, and CSB nipping at its heels. For a time, it looked like the NIV might well take the place, in conservative religious circles, of the KJV, but as the KJV has remained stubbornly persistent in some circles and a plethora of new translations nip a few percentage points of readers off here and there, it seems that we're heading toward a situation without any sort of clear standard translation.
On top of all that, the NIV remains trapped in the conservative evangelical demographic that produced it, and is going to have a very difficult time ever making any progress in academia, because it has a tendency to slant the translation toward the theology of its target audience.
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