Welcome to a special episode of the Crossway podcast.

This month, we're celebrating the 20th anniversary of the English Standard Version, first published

by Crossway in 2001.

To help mark this milestone, this month we're releasing a number of fascinating interviews

focused on the ESV and Bible translation.

Today, we're pleased to share the first of these interviews, a conversation with ESV translation

oversight committee member, Dr. Paul House. In this interview, Paul answers questions

listeners submitted about the ESV, questions related

to how translators do their work, the translation philosophy of the ESV, tricky passages,

and a lot more.

In addition to his work on the ESV translation oversight committee, Paul serves as Professor

of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School

in Birmingham, Alabama. He's also a past president of the Evangelical Theological Society,

an active member of the Society of Biblical Literature, and the general editor of the new ESV

concise study Bible. Let's get started.

Well, Paul, thank you so much for joining me today on the Crossplay podcast.

Thank you. It's an honor to be with you.

So you serve on the Translation Oversight Committee for the ESV.

At first, I wonder if you could just start off by telling us what the TOC for short does.

Yes, the Translation Oversight Committee is the group of people who make final decisions on the text of the ESV.

And that group consists of these different parts. I believe it started with 12 people.

We may be as many as 15 now.

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