A year or so ago I won two copies of the Voice bible from Thomas Nelson’s Blog Bunch. I won a digital copy for my Kindle and I won a hard copy as ell. I enjoyed the Voice. It is truly an interesting translation but have you ever wondered how someone or in this case a group of someones toes about deciding to go about developing a translation of the Bible? I did. I was curious and this Bible is slightly different. So when I saw that Thomas Nelson was offering The Story of the Voice to be reviewed by booksneezers i jumped at the chance.
This book marks the journey of the crew who translated the Voice Bible. I must say that the timeline of this “adventure” along with God’s working is nothing short of Amazing!
There is a quote from the Sound of Music that was brought to mind throughout this book,
“When God closes a door somewhere He opens a window”
What’s more the book inserts throughout it blog posts that were written about the translation as the embarked on their journey. It gives insight on the struggles, blessings and the processes involved in such a great undertaking.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book as I read it and was blessed in seeing how God worked and encouraged the team of writers and collaborators. It was also a great idea to include the blog posts that happened “real time”. It captured the emotions and thoughts while in the trenches of this process.
My questions and curiosities were answered on the process and how one decides to go about adding a new translation into the mix.
The one downfall I guess would be that despite the fact it is a small book at times it felt repetitious( as in the blog post inserts would repeat what the author had already stated in the chapter). This didn’t happen all the time but it did happen a few.
On a whole I would recommend you read this book if you are in the slightest bit curious about The Voice Bible and/or why it was written.
I give it a 4.5 out of 5 stars
(Disclaimer: i was provided a free copy from Booksneeze for review purposes and in no way am I required to give a favorable review, nor am i compensated for such.)
