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This is the version of the Jehovah's Witnesses bible published by the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society: Jehovah's Witnesses: The Orthodox Jewish Bible: OJB Modern English 2002 Messianic Judaism: The Orthodox Study Bible: OSB Modern English 2008 Septuagint by St. Athanasius Academy for the Old Testament and the New King James Version for the ...
In 1946, the New English Bible was initiated in the United Kingdom, intended to enable readers to better understand the King James Bible. In 1958, J. B. Phillips (1906–1982) produced an edition of the New Testament letters in paraphrase, the Letters to Young Churches , so that members of his youth group could understand what the New Testament ...
The Revised Version is significant in the history of English Bible translation for many reasons. At the time of the RV's publication, the nearly 300-year-old King James Version was the main Protestant English Bible in Victorian England. The RV, therefore, is regarded as the forerunner of the entire modern translation tradition.
The RSV was the first translation of the Bible to make use of the Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah, a development considered "revolutionary" in the academic field of biblical scholarship. [2] The New Testament was first published in 1946, the Old Testament in 1952, and the Apocrypha in 1957; the New Testament was revised in 1971.
All the editions published before the Complutensian Polyglot were edited by Jews; but afterwards, and because of the increased interest excited in the Bible by the Reformation, the work was taken up by Christian scholars and printers; and the editions published by Jews after this time were largely influenced by these Christian publications. It ...
It is preserved only in two early manuscripts: the Curetonian (4th century) and the Sinaitic (5th century). The former was published by William Cureton in 1858 and is marked syr cur, while the latter was discovered by A.S. Lewis in 1892 in Sinai, is marked syr sin and is a palimpsest. The manuscripts probably transmit a text close to that of ...
Other early printed versions were the Geneva Bible published by Sir Rowland Hill in 1560. [12] This version is notable for being the first Bible divided into verses and which negated the Divine Right of Kings; the Bishop's Bible (1568), which was an attempt by Elizabeth I to create a new authorised version; and the Authorized King James Version ...
We heartily recommend the New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures, published in 1950 by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society." [ 117 ] In 1959, Thomson added that on the whole the version was quite a good one, even though it was padded with many English words which had no equivalent in the Greek or Hebrew.