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Bible translation committees have an academic institutional bias.  Characteristics of this bias include:

Bible translation committees have an academic institutional bias.  Characteristics of this bias include:

*preferring emasculation rather than the masculine;

*preferring emasculation rather than the masculine;

*a pedantic insistence on consistency rather than precision or fullness, thereby running afoul of [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]]'s famous criticism of professors: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.";<ref>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/353571-a-foolish-consistency-is-the-hobgoblin-of-little-minds-adored</ref>

*a pedantic insistence on consistency rather than precision or fullness, thereby running afoul of [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]]'s famous criticism of professors: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines";<ref>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/353571-a-foolish-consistency-is-the-hobgoblin-of-little-minds-adored</ref>

:*an example of this is the insistence by most professors today to mistranslate as "chains fell off his hands" (rather than wrists) at {{bibleref|Acts|12|7}} to be consistent but incorrect as the Greek term meant either hands or wrists;<ref>Less than a third of the English translations use the obviously correct term "wrists" here, and most of those versions are obscure with the exception of the [[NIV]]. [https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Acts%2012:7]</ref>

:*an example of this is the insistence by most professors today to mistranslate as "chains fell off his hands" (rather than wrists) at {{bibleref|Acts|12|7}} to be consistent but incorrect as the Greek term meant either hands or wrists;<ref>Less than a third of the English translations use the obviously correct term "wrists" here, and most of those versions are obscure with the exception of the [[NIV]]. [https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Acts%2012:7]</ref>

*an exclusion of insights from [[STEM]] fields, or nearly any field other than that of the professor himself;

*an exclusion of insights from [[STEM]] fields, or nearly any field other than that of the professor himself;