NIV for Australian users

For years I had to use the Anglicised NIV, purchased through a Lutheran package.

However, when L5 platinum was installed NIV sneaked through. When the new NIV2011 came out it was upgraded.

Stephen Miller

Sydney, Australia

I'm an Australian Logos user. My library includes the Zondervan NIV(1984) and The Zondervan NIV (2011)  - both of which have reverse interlinear facility. I may have bought the 1984 NIV separately at some time, and the 2011 one probably came with one of the various incarnations of the base packages I have moved through over the years (currently Gold). At some time I also bought the NIV with Anglicised spelling (1984) published by Hodder and Stoughton. An Anglicised NIV (2011) is currently on prepub for $19 AUS https://www.logos.com/product/33548/the-holy-bible-new-international-version-anglicised

One problem with not being able to get the Zondervan-published NIVs is that they are the only ones that have the reverse interlinear capability. If you really want one, why don't you keep clicking on the order buttons and see if it really does stop you from buying it. It seems really dum for Zondervan to only sell its electronic NIVs to US and Canadian customers, since it's almost impossible to buy a paper-based NIV in Australia in anything other than a Zondervan edition (with all those moronic simplified spellings that the Yanks insist on using and imposing on more civilised parts of the English-speaking world).

Reviews of the New Covenant Commentary Series (4 vols.):

• Ro -volume: http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/8082_8838.pdf
• Eph -volume: http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9218&CodePage=9218 www.amazon.com/product-reviews/0718892399/ref=cm_cr_dp_syn_footer?k=Ephesians%3A%20A%20New%20Covenant%20Commentary&showViewpoints=1 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9048433-ephesians?from_search=true (Non-technical.) Recommended reading in A New New Testament: A Bible for the 21st Century Combining Traditional and Newly Discovered Texts by Hal Taussig: http://books.google.se/books?id=BfZ3OM12AXQC&pg=PA326&dq=Lynn+Cohick+ephesians&hl=sv&sa=X&ei=-JCuUoyVFayK5ASS9oG4BQ&ved=0CEAQuwUwAQ#v=onepage&q=recommended%20reading%20lynn&f=false
• Col and Philem -volume: http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/8081_8837.pdf (Believes in Pauline authorship of Col, treats Philem very briefly.)
• Rev -volume:  "Fee uses the 2011 edition of the NIV, since he was a member of the translation committee and his commentary often reads as a commentary on the NIV translation. One notable translation decision is the use of “people” instead of “saints” or “holy ones” for hagios (219)."
  "In his introduction Fee deals with the typical questions of what, why, who, and when (xi–xxii). In answer to “what, ” Fee discusses the blending of three kinds of literature (apocalypse, prophecy, and letter) into a single whole. In answer to the “why” of Revelation, he argues that the most dominant theme is that of the holy war and that John demonstrates himself to be a genuine prophet by prophesying that persecution and suffering will increase and intensify until the end (xv, xviii, 153). John thus wrote Revelation to prepare his Christian readers for the suffering that would soon intensify during the holy war. Concerning the “who” question he argues that the apostle John authored Revelation (xix). He does not just give lip-service to this affirmation but draws many connections throughout the commentary between Revelation and the Johannine corpus in support of shared authorship (8, 25, 26, 27, 28, 47, 80, 81, 117, 183, 276). He briefly answers the “when” question by noting that Revelation was written in the late first or early second century."

I don't agree with that about authorship for Rev, see: Re: Johannite Church ~AD 90.

So the only valuable volumes would be the two volumes on Ro, Eph. You should call Sales and try asking for a better price, I guess You might get 15% off if You order something else too at the same time:

NIV11 Anglicised as a Bible translation, and commentaries based on it?

One commentary set that's based on it, is: New Covenant Commentary Series (4 vols.).