Good News for Modern Man was the brainchild of Eugene Nida, an ABS linguist who pioneered the “dynamic equivalence” approach to Bible translation. At the heart of this theory is the idea that the best ...

The Good News Translation, as it’s usually known, followed the precepts of “functional equivalence”—translating not word for word but thought for thought, with the goal of capturing the ...

Bratcher was tapped by Eugene Nida, who headed the ABS translation department, to do a New Testament translation. The Good News Bible used a theory of translation termed “dynamic equivalence,” in ...

There are mainstream translations like the New King James Version, the New International Version and the Good News Bible ... finding the right Bible translation can seem a tricky topic to broach.