The publisher of the New International Version [NIV], Zondervan Corporation, recently “announced their intention” jointly with the NIV translation’s overseer the Committee on Bible Translation [CBT] and the NIV copyright owner Biblica (formerly the International Bible Society), to revise the NIV and release an update in 2011.

Since its original publication in 1978, the NIV has been revised several times, including an NIrV [New International Reader’s Version] and the Today’s New International Version [TNIV] in 2002. According to the news release, the NIV will drop its 3,000 “gender-neutral language” uses that appeared in the 2002 TNIV edition and will cease printing of the TNIV when the updated NIV is published.

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