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Joint committee of British churches and scholars · 1961 · Scripture
The New English Bible was the first major British ecumenical undertaking to offer a wholly fresh translation of scripture, intended to replace rather than merely revise the King James tradition that had…
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Theophan (Fan) Noli · 1961 · Scripture
An unusual English rendering of the New Testament prepared by Fan Noli, the Albanian Orthodox bishop, statesman and translator who was also known for putting Orthodox liturgical texts into Albanian and for…
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Lockman Foundation translation team · 1963 · Scripture
A major conservative Bible in the formal-equivalence tradition, the New American Standard Bible is a direct modernization of the line represented by the American Standard Version, which serves as its predecessor and…
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William F. Beck; OT completed/edited by colleagues · 1963 · Scripture
Known commonly by the name of its translator, Beck's An American Translation is a significant Lutheran Bible in modern English, prepared as a fresh rendering of the complete Bible from the original-language…
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Frances Siewert and Lockman Foundation editorial teams · 1965 · Scripture
The Amplified Bible is a distinctive study-oriented translation that places alternative meanings and explanatory expansions directly within the text itself, rather than confining them to footnotes or margins. Covering the complete Bible,…
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Good News Bible Good News Translation / Today's English Version
Robert G. Bratcher and American Bible Society teams · 1966 · Scripture
A landmark functional-equivalence Bible, designed for clarity across cultures and reading levels, the Good News Translation—first known as Today's English Version—emerged from the work of the American Bible Society in the mid-twentieth…
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Alexander Jones, general editor; team of British Catholic scholars · 1966 · Scripture
The Jerusalem Bible was the first major postwar English Catholic Bible translated from the original languages with broad literary ambition. Covering the complete Catholic Bible, it was rendered from Hebrew, Aramaic, and…
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Koren Jerusalem Bible Koren Jerusalem Bible — English Translation
English text edited/revised by Harold Fisch · 1967 · Scripture
An important Israeli-produced Hebrew–English Tanakh whose English text is shaped for Jewish use, this edition presents the Hebrew Bible alongside a facing English rendering. Its source languages are Hebrew together with an…
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Berkeley Version revision committee · 1969 · Scripture
The Modern Language Bible is a substantial revision and renaming of the Berkeley Version, the mid-twentieth-century English translation completed in 1959, which serves as its predecessor and base translation. It covers the…
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1969 · Scripture
The New Life Version stands among the earlier English Bibles deliberately produced with a very small, controlled vocabulary, prepared with readers in mind who are learning English or who have limited literacy.…
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Catholic Biblical Association scholars · 1970 · Scripture
The New American Bible was the first complete American Catholic Bible translated broadly from the original languages under modern Catholic norms, marking a shift away from the long-standing reliance on the Latin…
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RSV committee · 1971 · Scripture
Issued in 1971, this edition presents a revised Revised Standard Version New Testament, incorporating textual and translation changes that followed twenty-five years of use. Its scope is limited to the New Testament,…
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Steven T. Byington · 1972 · Scripture
The Bible in Living English belongs to the tradition of independent, single-translator versions of the Scriptures, undertaken outside the committee structures that produced most major English Bibles. The work of one man,…
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J. B. Phillips · 1972 · Scripture
A mature revision of J. B. Phillips's influential modern-speech New Testament, this edition covers the New Testament alone, translated from Greek and taking the Greek New Testament as its base text. Phillips,…
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Committee on Bible Translation · 1973 · Scripture
The New International Version is one of the most influential modern English evangelical translations. It comprises the complete Bible, rendered from Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, working from modern critical editions of the…
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1973 · Scripture
A Translator's Translation of the New Testament is an English rendering of the New Testament prepared not primarily for devotional or liturgical use but as a working tool: it aims to expose…
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Lockman Foundation translation team · 1977 · Scripture
The 1977 update was the first full revision of the New American Standard Bible, issued six years after the translation's completion in 1971. Covering the complete Bible, it was prepared from the…
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Thomas Nelson committee · 1979 · Scripture
The New King James Version is a major modernization of the King James Version that seeks to preserve both its textual tradition and its literary cadence while replacing archaic vocabulary and pronoun…
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Committee on Bible Translation · 1984 · Scripture
This is the form of the New International Version that became especially dominant in evangelical use in the late twentieth century. Comprising the complete Bible, it was translated from Hebrew, Aramaic, and…
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Jay P. Green Sr. · 1985 · Scripture
Green's Literal Translation, also known as the Literal Translation of the Holy Bible, is an influential one-man rendering of Scripture that emphasizes close grammatical correspondence to the Hebrew and Greek. Covering the…
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Henry Wansbrough, general editor; Catholic scholars · 1985 · Scripture
The New Jerusalem Bible is a major revision of the Jerusalem Bible of 1966, its predecessor and base translation, drawing more directly on original-language texts and incorporating updated scholarship. It is a…
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Tanakh JPS Tanakh / New JPS Translation
Jewish Publication Society committees · 1985 · Scripture
The New JPS Translation is an entirely new rendering of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, produced by the Jewish Publication Society and completed over the course of more than two decades. Translated…
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World Bible Translation Center team · 1986 · Scripture
The International Children's Bible is an early example of a complete English Bible prepared specifically for children and developing readers. Its scope is the whole Bible, drawn from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and…
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New American Bible New American Bible — Revised New Testament
Catholic Biblical Association scholars · 1986 · Scripture
A major revision of the New American Bible's New Testament, this text stands within the tradition of Catholic biblical translation in English in the United States, undertaken under the sponsorship of the…
