List of functional equivalent translations
I notice The Message (MSG) is not included in the list of functional equivalent translations. This stands out because MSG is a popular translation. I wonder if this is due to MSG being a paraphrase.
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ranslation, New Living Translation, Contemporary English Version, New Century Version, God’s Word Translation. And then mediating versions would be versions like the NIV, the New American Bible (a Roman Catholic translation), the Holman Christian, the New English Translation or NET Bible, and the Common English Bible. All versions lie on a continuum from more lite
- I've always referred to The Message as "an original languages paraphrase". In other words, the author knows Greek & Hebrew - but he isn't really trying to match either the precise wording or the idiom. He's trying to produce something that "carries the sense", so to speak, in modern language - whether or not it matches up perfectly. Worth noting that The Message didn't even originally contain verse numbers, since verse references and such weren't really the point of the translation.