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The Holman Christian Standard Bible is one of the most accurate translations of the scriptures. Let professional voice artist Dale McConachie, narrator of over 100 audiobooks, take you on a journey through God's Word, where you will discover his holiness, love, power, mercy, and grace. Do you often feel you're too busy to sit down and read the Bible, yet you know you need time with God? Well now you can hear from God from virtually anywhere with this digital recording of the Holman Christian Standard Audio Bible. Dale McConachie's goal in recording this is for you to feel, when driving down the road, as if your best friend is in the front seat reading the Bible to you. It is the reader's prayer that many will let the Word of Christ richly dwell in them. People in all 50 states and most foreign countries have purchased audio Bibles recorded by Dale. 1. Part a - Track 1 - starts Genesis 2. Part a - Track 7 - starts Exodus 3. Part a - Track 13 - starts Leviticus 4. Part a - Track 17 - starts Numbers5. Part b - Track 5 - starts Deuteronomy 6. Part b - Track 9 - starts Joshua7. Part b - Track 12 - starts Judges8. Part b - Track 15 - starts Ruth9. Part b - Track 16 - starts 1st Samuel 10. Part c - Track 4 - starts 2nd Samuel11. Part c - Track 8 - starts 1st Kings12. Part c - Track 12 - starts 2nd Kings13. Part c - Track 16 - starts 1st Chronicles 14. Part d - Track 3 - starts 2nd Chronicles15. Part d - Track 7- starts Ezra16. Part d - Track 8 - starts Nehemiah 17. Part d - Track 10 - starts Esther 18. Part d - Track 11 - starts Job19. Part d - Track 15 - starts Psalms20. Part e - Track 7 - starts Proverbs 21. Part e - Track 10 - starts Ecclesiasticus 22. Part e - Track 11 - starts Song of Songs 23. Part e - Track 12 - starts Isaiah 24. Part f - Track 1 - starts Jeremiah25. Part f - Track 8 - starts Lamentations 26. Part f - Track 9 - starts Ezekiel 27. Part f - Track 16 - starts Daniel 28. Part g - Track 1 - starts Hosea29. Part g - Track 2 - starts Joel 30. Part g - Track 3 - starts Amos 31. Part g - Track 4- starts Obadiah 32. Part g - Track 5 - starts Jonah33. Part g - Track 6 - starts Micah 34. Part g - Track 7 - starts Nahum35. Part g - Track 8 - starts Habakkuk36. Part g - Track 9 - starts Zephaniah 37. Part g - Track 10 - starts Haggai 38. Part g - Track 11 - starts Zechariah 39. Part g - Track 12 - starts Malachi 40. Part g - Track 13 - starts Matthew 41. Part g - Track 17 - starts Mark 42. Part g - Track 20 - starts Luke43. Part h - Track 1 - starts John 44. Part h - Track 5 - starts Axe45. Part h - Track 9 - starts Romans 46. Part h - Track 11 - starts 1st Corinthians 47. Part h - Track 13 - starts 2nd Corinthians 48. Part h - Track 14 - starts Galatians49. Part h - Track 15 - starts Ephesians50. Part h - Track 16 - starts Philippians51. Part h - Track 17 - starts Colossians52. Part h- Track 18 - starts 1st Thessalonians53. Part h - Track 19 - starts 2nd Thessalonians54. Part h - Track 20 - starts 1st Timothy55. Part I - Track 1 - starts 2nd Timothy 56. Part I- Track 2- starts Titus57. Part I - Track 3- starts Philemon58. Part I - Track 4- starts Hebrews 59. Part I - Track 5 - starts James60. Part I - Track 6- starts 1st Peter 61. Part I - Track 7 - starts 2nd Peter 62. Part I - Track 8 - starts 1st John 63. Part I - Track 9 - starts 2nd John64. Part I - Track 10 - starts 3rd John 65. Part I - Track 11 - starts Jude 66. Part I - Track 12 - starts Revelation
Audible Audio Edition
Listening Length: 72 hours and 52 minutes
Program Type: Audiobook
Version: Unabridged
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Audible.com Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
ASIN: B00E0X5OHW
Best Sellers Rank: #13 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Religion & Spirituality > Bibles #523 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Bibles #13711 in Books > Religion & Spirituality
As a pastor who has used the New International Version for years, I was very interested in a new translation that would be more accurate than the NIV yet still be readable. That is a tall order, but the Holman Christian Standard Bible fills the order.The HCSB is also more precise and accurate than the NIV. In the Gospel of Mark, eight times the NIV fails to translate the uniquely favorite Greek word of Mark, euthus, translated "immediately," but the HCSB is always careful to translate this word.In Matthew 26:64, when the high priest asks Jesus if he is the Christ, the literal Greek rendering is "You said it." However, this is an idiomatic expression which means "yes." So how should this reply be translated? The NIV has, "Yes, it is as you say." The HCSB has the more literal, "You have said it," and adds a footnote explaining that this as an affirmative expression.In Ephesians 6:10-13, the apostle Paul speaks of the armor of God. In the NIV, both verse 11 and verse 13 urge the believer to "put on the full armor of God." However, the Greek words are different in each verse, and the HCSB picks up this difference, translating verse 11, "put on the full armor of God" but verse 13, "take up the full armor of God."While being more accurate than the NIV, the HCSB is often more contemporary than the NIV as well. For example, Psalm 90:2 in the HCSB: "Before the mountains were born, You gave birth to the earth and the world, from eternity to eternity, you are God."This language is more modern than the NIV, which says, "Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlating you are God."In Esther 3:6, the NIV refers to "who Mordecai's people were," but the HCSB refers to "Mordecai's ethnic identity.
Every Bible translation, starting from another language, is a mixed bag. Overall, I would recommend this Bible for daily use, memorization and study. The translators were careful; this is a no-nonsense translation and should be taken seriously.The Holman Christian is more literal than the NIV, but doesn't read as smoothly. This is to be expected, since the NIV paraphrases more for stylist reasons. But the HCSB does read clearly. It is precise.The HCSB is less "word for word" than the NASB, which is good and bad; the NASB doesn't read as smoothly as the HCSB, due also in part to the awkward verse paragraphing employed by the NASB publishers. Also, the HCSB will footnote major excursions from the literal, keeping the process fairly honest. Still, since the HCSB is not a purely literal translation (ie. the translators give themselves the freedom to paraphrase as deemed necesary for your understanding), one is never sure where the God's word ends and the interpretation begins. (I guess that problem exists with all translations, doesn't it?)To compare, the English Standard Bible (ESV), another new conservative translation now available, reads more elegantly than the HCSB. However, part of the "elegance" is due to the fact that the ESV employs sayings and phrases comfortable amongst older Bible folk (Ie,. it retains some archaicisms for that effect.) For example, the ESV in Matthew 7:1 reads, "Judge not, that you be not judged." Do you know anyone that talks that way? Or "Fret not yourself because of evildoers" (Ps. 37:1 ESV). Sure, it's quaint, but wouldn't you be embarrassed reading that to a current audience? The HCSB will always read like modern literature, in wording, sentence strcture and sentence length.
The Holman Christian Standard Bible stands at the crossroads of being a great achievement and a slight disappointment. The HCSB was a work of some of the best scholarship there is out there and it shows. The passages are very accurate to the scriptures for the most part (though see my remarks below on Matt. 23), there is little to dispute about that. Now, Holman wanted to make a translation that was both literally accurate and dynamic. This has been tried before by two translations: God's Word [to the Nations] and the International Standard Version. Where and how a translation maneuvers between the two types of translation technique often determines if it will ultimately be sucessful and these two were not. Happily, I am glad to say that the Holman Christian Standard Bible does pull off this translation style a great deal better that its two predecessors. I also must commend Broadman & Holman for the terrific helps they have incorperated into this version, such as plan of salvation and endless footnotes.Still, this grandiose effot quite often falls a bit short when everything is put together. The few slight problems in the HCSB come when this jumbled mixture of literalness and just-when-needed dynamic translation are then taken and formed into phrases, sentences, and paragraphs that the normal English-speaker will understand and appreciate. A lot of passages in the Holman bible seem very "contrived", going against the natural flow of the English language, and especially against the smooth poetry and prose normally given to the translation of scripture. This translation also is perhaps unnecessarily over-modernized, becoming almost chatty.
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