Friday, December 08, 2006  Michael Marlowe's Review of the NET
Bible  Perhaps many of you have already heard about or made use
of the NET Bible made available by the folks at If you have had
opportunity to use this free resource, you will no doubt have
also discovered its many useful footnotes (60,932 translators’
notes). But you will no doubt also have observed its tendency
toward dynamic equivalence translation and to embrace the
occasional odd reading. However, Michael Marlowe, in his August
2006 review of the NET Bible, shows that the problems with the
version run considerably deeper. Here is the conclusion to
Marlowe's review:  The NET Bible has some good features. The
primary strength of the version is its value as a free internet
resource for fledgling scholars who would otherwise have no
convenient access to the kind of grammatical and text-critical
information presented in the notes. But the "tn" and "sn" notes
cannot be relied upon to inform the reader where scholars differ
on important points of in