Bible translation

Books

Common English Bible

The Kingdom New Testament

A Contemporary Translation

By N. T. Wright

New testaments

Mar 21, 2012 by James C. Howell

The Common English Bible boasts that 120 scholars worked on it. The Kingdom New Testament was written by one (brilliant) guy.

Features

The KJV endureth

The 400th anniversary

Dec 29, 2010 by Timothy Larsen

I recently reread the biblical translation so familiar from my youth. I found its power and grandeur unabated, though some of the language has an odd ring today.

News

Are more Bible versions bad for the Good Book?

Oct 19, 2010 by Daniel Burke

If you stacked all the Bibles sitting in American homes, the tower would rise 29 million feet, nearly 1,000 times the height of Mount Everest.

News

Good News Bible translator dies; opposed inerrantists

Robert Bratcher supported dynamic equivalence

Aug 03, 2010 by Bob Allen

Robert Bratcher, the New Testament translator of the Good News Bible which became a best-selling version in the 1970s, died July 10 at a retirement community in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was 90.

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Deaths

Jul 12, 2005
Theodore A. Gill, 85, a prominent Presbyterian theologian and educator who was also a civil rights activist, ecumenist and magazine editor, died in Princeton, New Jersey, on June 10 after a lengthy illness. In the 1960s he was one of a group of white Protestant church leaders who championed the civil rights movement.
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Bible verses compared

Improving clarity in contemporary English
Mar 08, 2005
The recently published TNIV, now with an Old Testament translation that continues the shift toward gender-inclusive language, also strives to improve clarity in contemporary English, judging by a comparison of the new version with the wording in the NIV of the early 1980s.
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New Bible woos young adults, skirts critics

Inclusive language
Mar 08, 2005 by John Dart
When Zondervan published in 2002 an inclusive-language version of the New Testament by the translators of the older, best-selling New International Version (NIV) Bible, vociferous criticism poured in from conservative Protestants.
Features

Gender and theBible

Evangelicals wrangle over new translations
Jul 03, 2002 by John Dart
A new translation of the Bible has created a tug of words between camps in the evangelical world. Moderates and conservatives are fighting with ultraconservatives over a gender-inclusive New Testament, part of Today’s New International Version Bible, which is based on the best-selling New International Version (NIV).