NLT | New Living Translation Bible

NLT – New Living Translation

NLT (New Living Translation) featuring Dynamic Equivalence [1] that translate to todays easy-to-understand contemporary English while preserve the original feeling of Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek texts. The translation is going through:
- Literally translated to English from Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek text
- If the literal translation does not fit and hard to understand, the translator using Dynamic Equivalence to translate into easy-to-understand contemporary English
- Dynamic Equivalence also translates ancient units into today easy-to-understand units (metric and imperial) with footnotes [2]

"On the one hand, they translated as simply and literally as possible when that approach yielded an accurate, clear, and natural English text … On the other hand, the NLT translators rendered the message more dynamically when the literal rendering was hard to understand, was misleading, or yielded archaic or foreign wording" [3]

In short, the scholars maintain the translation as literal as possible while make the translation easy-to-understand in contemporary today English

KINDLE

GENERAL – PAPERBACK

GENERAL – HARDCOVER

Hardcover – Large Print

Hardcover

GENERAL – LEATHER

Leather – Large Print

Leather