A revision of the New Inter­national Version (NIV) of the Bible — the first since 1984 — has been announced by Biblica (formerly the International Bible Society) for publication in 2011.

The announcement was made at Trinity Christian College, Illinois, in the United States, where the Com­mittee on Bible Translation (CBT), which will be responsible for the revision, first met in 1965.

The chairman of the CBT, Pro­fessor Douglas Moo, said that it hoped to bring out a “translation that is, above all, accurate — that says what the original authors said in the way they would have said it had they been speaking in English to the global English-speaking audience today.”

The CBT, he said, was committed to “a complete review of every gender-related change we have made since the publication of the 1984 edition. The point that I want to stress … is that, especially in this area of gender, our reading of the state of English usage and the demands of the original text are all back on the table.”

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