The only new Bible version that I would like to see produced is a modern language, word-for-word translation based on the Majority Text. [I assume that this version is based on the Critical Text]
Here is a quote from the first page of the introduction. It is about the textual base for the HCSB.
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The textual base for the HCSB New Testament [NT] is the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece, 27th edition, and the United Bible Societies' Greek New Testament, 4th corrected edition. The text for the HCSB Old Testament [OT] is the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, 5th edition. At times, however, the translators have followed an alternative manuscript tradition, disagreeing with the editors of these texts about the original meaning.
I don't know if that helps.
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Based on those few quotations, this translation seems OK, but I wonder what the pressing need is for yet another version of the Bible. Cynic that I am, I would suspect that it has more to do with Holman's desire to compete in the Bible 'market' than to fill some gap in the edification of God's people.
I don't know what their desire is or their motive apart from what I've heard and what the introduction says. And unless someone from the inside says otherwise, I guess we more or less have to take Holman at their word.
I, personally, don't know what the pressing need for a new Bible is, but at least they are translating the Bible into a zillion different renditions rather than Hitler's Mein Kampf.
