Over the past couple years, the NLT Bible Translation Team has labored for hours and hours refining the footnotes at the bottom of the page of the translation. I have to admit that every once in a while I have thought to myself: “Why bother? No one reads them anyway!” I really doubt a large [...]

In the past there was a tradition of not listing the names of the translators of the Bible. After all, translators didn’t write the Bible; they simply render into a modern language what is there in Hebrew and Greek (with a bit of Aramaic). Humility would seem to call for anonymity. So why does the [...]