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The [[Southern Baptist Convention]] reportedly provided $10 million in funding for this new translation, to "safeguard the Scriptures from trends toward cultural pluralism, political correctness and drifting theology."<ref name="Holman">http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/04/15/special_reports/religion/22_01_354_14_04.txt</ref>  Critics considered this project to be a "preemptive strike against a competitor," the "'inclusive' recasting of the [[NIV]] called Today's New International Version," which "was savaged by conservative Southern Baptists and other sticklers on this issue but endorsed by prominent [[Evangelical Christian|evangelicals]]."<ref name="Holman"/>

The [[Southern Baptist Convention]] reportedly provided $10 million in funding for this new translation, to "safeguard the Scriptures from trends toward cultural pluralism, political correctness and drifting theology."<ref name="Holman">http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/04/15/special_reports/religion/22_01_354_14_04.txt</ref>  Critics considered this project to be a "preemptive strike against a competitor," the "'inclusive' recasting of the [[NIV]] called Today's New International Version," which "was savaged by conservative Southern Baptists and other sticklers on this issue but endorsed by prominent [[Evangelical Christian|evangelicals]]."<ref name="Holman"/>

While the Holman is perhaps the most easily readable and the less [[liberal]] of the modern translations, it has an occasional oddity, such as its translation of Matthew 9:18 to describe the child about to be raised from the dead by [[Jesus]] as merely being "near death" rather than deceased.  This is in disagreement with other major translations.<ref>See [[Disputed Bible Translations]].</ref>

While the Holman has been criticized as a modern [[conservative]] translation of the [[Southern Baptist Convention]], it has several [[liberal]] twists:

 

*Its translation of Matthew 9:18 describes the child about to be raised from the dead by [[Jesus]] as merely being "near death" rather than deceased.  This is in disagreement with other major translations.<ref>See [[Disputed Bible Translations]].</ref>

 

This is the primary new translation of the 21st century.<ref>http://www.bible-researcher.com/csb.html</ref>

This is the primary new translation of the 21st century.<ref>http://www.bible-researcher.com/csb.html</ref>