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The Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB) is one of the newer translations. The first full edition was completed in March 2004, with the New Testament alone having been previously published in 1999. When the publishers of the New International Version (NIV) made it known that they were producing a politically-correct, gender-neutral translation, to be called the Today's New International Version (TNIV), the Southern Baptist Convention, which had been using the NIV, commissioned a new translation. The Holman CSB is the product of that translation.
The text reads somewhere between the ESV and NIV as far as literalness but avoids the former's over-dependence on the RSV while being more literal than the later. Overall, it is a good balance of clear English and fidelity to the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts.
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