What's a good Spanish bible version?

[Gideon Brown]

I think I'm gonna get a Spanish bible. What's a good, modern version for someone who doesn't really speak the language that well? (i.e., something similar to the NIV in English)

[NSMinistries]

This new product is the first of its kind. For the first time, both the
Nueva Version Internacional and the New International Version of the
Bible have been put together, in a parallel, bilingual version. Both
concordances are included as a powerful tool for your study.

ISBN: 0829727760
Vida (Manufactured by)
$47.99

[Gideon Brown]

Thanks, NSM... unfortunately, though, as great as that looks, $50 (!) is a little pricey for me! It does look like a good idea though. But I hadn't realized there was an actual NIV in Spanish. Thanks!

[NSMinistries]

Thanks, NSM... unfortunately, though, as great as that looks, $50 (!) is a little pricey for me! It does look like a good idea though. But I hadn't realized there was an actual NIV in Spanish. Thanks!
ISBN: 0829732195
$21.99
Paper Back

[Christianotaku]

get the reina valera...

[Gideon Brown]

Clarification, 'Taku? What/why?

[Aravis]

I got a paperback copy of the NVI at my local LifeWay for $5. Nice clear translation (as best I can tell--I'm not a fluent Spanish reader.)

[_lel]

For ease of reading, I would encourage the Nueva Versión Internacional. Speaking as a non-native reader of Spanish, I generally find the language fairly simple and easy to understand. The Reina Valera is quite majestic, but the reading is more difficult. Compare, for example, the English language NIV and KJV -- the KJV may be more majestic, but the NIV is certainly easier to read.

I also have a copy of the Nueva Versión Internacional which I purchased at a local Christian bookstore for $5. Sometimes when I was in college, some of us who were learning Spanish would use this version for study and sometimes discuss it to get a new perspective on things.

[Gideon Brown]

Thanks Lel, that's pretty much what I've found so far as well. I particularly like what you said about the NVI vs. the Reina Valera because I've found the same thing with modern vs. archaic French versions (BDS vs. LSG).

Actually, I found a bible online that has the NVI and NIV on facing pages for a pretty reasonable price, so I think I'm gonna go with that.

[Cephas]

Ho. From the name, "Nuevo Versión Internacional", it looks like it's a translation of an English translation. Is there a Spanish translation direct from Hebrew/Greek?

[Aravis]

According to its preface, the NVI is a translation directly from the Hebrew and Greek, though it does make use of the research of the NIV translators.

[Gideon Brown]

Thanks, Aravis! Good luck on getting out of Azkaban! :wink:

[_lel]

Actually, I found a bible online that has the NVI and NIV on facing pages for a pretty reasonable price, so I think I'm gonna go with that.

It also seems that they have a number of versions of Bibles in different languages online at biblegateway.com (http://biblegateway.com/languages/), so if you want to look at a few passages in each translation before buying one, that might be another way to do so. The Biblia en Lenguaje Sencillo seems pretty interesting also (seems to be simple as it says it is so far; I've only read a few chapters). Enjoy!

Edit: Geez, just saw the biblegateway.com banner at the bottom of the pages. Then again, I am the master of the obvious sometimes...

[lchemist]

A word on Spanish Translations:

Nueva Version International: Very good and simple version, sister of the English NIV.

Dios Habla hoy: Popular version sister of Today's English Version.

Biblia de las Americas: Elegant and accurate version, Sister of the English NAS.

Biblia de Jerusalem: Roman Catholic canon. Sister of the French version. Literary spanish.

Biblia Latinoamericana: Good RC version.

El libro del Pueblo de Dios. Used in public readings in Argentinean Roman Catholic Churches.

La Biblia del Peregrino: Study Biblie by the late RC bible scholar Alonso Schoekel. Literary Spanish.

Biblia Herder: Roman Catholic

Cantera Iglesias: High level Spanish. RC.

Nueva Biblia Española: Lierary version.

La Santa Biblia: By Evaristo Nieto

Biblia de America: RC. Different from La Biblia de las Americas.

La Biblia al Dia: Paraphrasis.

Version del Nuevo Mundo: Translation from the English version The New World Translation, by Jehovah's Witnesses.

The Classical Spanish version Reina-Valera can be obtained in the following versions:

1909: Archaic Spanish follows closely the Textus Receptus.

1960 Most common. Basis of many study bibles.

1977. Good update by CLIE.

1989 Reina-Valera Actualizada, by the Spanish Baptist House.

1995 The new Standard by the Bible Societes. Study Bible.

La Nueva Reina Valera (1996, 2000) By the Adventist Libreria Emanuel, follows 7th day adventist theology.

[Huldrych]

A word on Spanish Translations:

The Classical Spanish version Reina-Valera can be obtained in the following versions:

1909: Archaic Spanish follows closely the Textus Receptus.

1960 Most common. Basis of many study bibles.

1977. Good update by CLIE.

1989 Reina-Valera Actualizada, by the Spanish Baptist House.

1995 The new Standard by the Bible Societes. Study Bible.

La Nueva Reina Valera (1996, 2000) By the Adventist Libreria Emanuel, follows 7th day adventist theology.

Don't forget the Sagradas Escrituras, Version Antigua. It's Casiodoro de Reina's work from 1569, and is available just about everywhere online for your computer. Printed versions are available via Ransom Press Internacional and facsimiles of the original from elsewhere.

Of course, I wouldn't recommend it for most beginning readers.

:cheers:

jth

[lchemist]

Don't forget the Sagradas Escrituras, Version Antigua. It's Casiodoro de Reina's work from 1569, and is available just about everywhere online for your computer. Printed versions are available via Ransom Press Internacional and facsimiles of the original from elsewhere.

Of course, I wouldn't recommend it for most beginning readers.

:cheers:

jth

Actually I am not sure if the version sold by Ramson is the original "Biblia del Oso" translated by Casiodoro de Reyna in 1569, or the so called Version Antigua a modern revision done by those who favor the "Textus Receptus" family.
To complete the picture of Reina Valera Bible revisions in today's market, we have to mention

1569 Reyna Facsimile by Clie (out of oprint) and by SBU (There are a a couple of editions published in Spain by secular publishers in several volumes, in general with modern typography)

1602 Reina -Valera Facsimile SBU

1865

1909 SBU

1909 Sociedad Biblica Trinitaria

1960 SBU (many editions)

1977 CLIE

1979 (1909 version with gramatical updates)

1989 Reina Valera actualizada CBP

1990

?? Version Antigua (1909 corrected to closely follow the Textus Receptus)

1995 SBU

2000 La Nueva Reina Valera

Upcoming: Reina Valera Textual by the Sociedad Biblica Internacional

By far the most popular is the 1960 revision which has been published with study notes and aids as, Scofield, Nueva Scofield, Vida, Pentecostal, Plenitud, Arco Iris, Thompson, Ryrie, Mundo Hispano, Harper-Caribe, Diario Vivir, Inductiva, etc, etc.

Next in lin in terms of popularity may be the 1995 revision published as study bible by tha United Bible Societies.

the 1909 revision is still preferred by those of fundamentalistic theology, or by those who think the Textus Receptus is better.