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Easy-to-Read Version Easy-to-Read Version / English Version for the Deaf
1987 · Scripture
Originally undertaken with Deaf readers in mind, this version — issued as the English Version for the Deaf and later as the Easy-to-Read Version — was subsequently broadened to serve literacy students…
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World Bible Translation Center and review scholars · 1987 · Scripture
The New Century Version emerged from the same translation project as the International Children's Bible, which serves as its predecessor and base translation, and it raised the reading level and style of…
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Missionary and Catholic translation/editorial teams · 1988 · Scripture
The Christian Community Bible is a distinct Catholic English Bible developed for community and pastoral use, with particular attention to mission contexts where readers may come to Scripture without formal theological training.…
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Phillip B. Giessler and committee · 1988 · Scripture
God's Word to the Nations New Testament marks an intermediate stage in the institutional history that led to GOD'S WORD. Limited in scope to the New Testament, it drew on the Greek…
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Heinz W. Cassirer · 1989 · Scripture
The Cassirer New Testament is a distinctive literary rendering of the New Testament, the work of a scholar of Kant and of the classical languages who came to Christian faith late in…
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David H. Stern · 1989 · Scripture
The Jewish New Testament is an influential attempt to foreground the Jewish setting of the New Testament through its choice of terminology and names. Covering the whole of the New Testament, it…
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National Council of Churches committee · 1989 · Scripture
A major ecumenical revision of the Revised Standard Version, the New Revised Standard Version has become a standard English Bible in academic contexts, widely used in universities, seminaries, and scholarly publication. It…
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Joint Committee of British churches · 1989 · Scripture
The Revised English Bible is a major revision of the New English Bible, undertaken with broader church participation than its predecessor and adopting more moderate language. Covering the complete Bible, it was…
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NCV revision team · 1991 · Scripture
The 1991 edition represents a more extensive revision of the New Century Version, prepared with a broader and older readership in mind than the simplified translations from which the line descends. It…
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American Bible Society revision team · 1992 · Scripture
The 1992 revision of the Good News Translation is a major revision of the Good News Bible, incorporating updated English and revised textual decisions. Taking the Good News Bible / Today's English…
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Deuel Enterprises editorial project · 1994 · Scripture
The 21st Century King James Version is a conservative modernization of the King James Version, updating archaic vocabulary while seeking to preserve the cadence and textual base of its predecessor. It is…
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American Bible Society translation team led by Barclay M. Newman · 1995 · Scripture
The Contemporary English Version is a complete translation of the Bible, rendered from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek and working from modern critical editions of the original-language texts. It was designed explicitly…
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Everett Fox · 1995 · Scripture
A major work of Jewish literary translation, Everett Fox's The Five Books of Moses renders the Torah, or Pentateuch — the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, traditionally ascribed to Moses…
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God's Word to the Nations translation team · 1995 · Scripture
GOD'S WORD Translation, published in 1995, is a complete English Bible rendered from Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, working from modern critical editions of the original-language texts. It emerged after the sponsoring society…
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Lockman Foundation translation team · 1995 · Scripture
The 1995 Update is a widely used modernized form of the New American Standard Bible, prepared to remove most archaic pronouns and to smooth the syntax of the earlier text while retaining…
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International Bible Society team · 1996 · Scripture
The New International Reader's Version is an accessibility-focused edition of the complete Bible, derived from the New International Version but revised sufficiently to function as a distinct translation in its own right.…
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Bible Translation Committee of over 90–100 scholars · 1996 · Scripture
An important distinction separates the New Living Translation from The Living Bible: whereas the latter was a paraphrase of an existing English text, the NLT is a committee translation made directly from…
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Richmond Lattimore · 1996 · Scripture
A highly respected literary translation by a major classicist, the Lattimore New Testament renders the Greek text into English with the aim of following the structure of the original closely while avoiding…
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ArtScroll / Mesorah editorial and rabbinic translation team, general editor Nosson Scherman · 1996 · Scripture
The Stone Edition Tanach is a highly influential Orthodox Jewish English rendering of the Tanakh, produced within the ArtScroll family of publications and widely used in Orthodox synagogues, schools, and homes. Its…
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1996 · Scripture
The Worldwide English New Testament is a rendering of the New Testament into simple international English, prepared with readers in mind for whom English is a second language or who encounter the…
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David H. Stern · 1998 · Scripture
The Complete Jewish Bible is a complete Bible designed to foreground Jewish continuity between the Tanakh and the New Testament, presenting both portions as parts of a single Jewish text rather than…
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Volunteer / editor-driven project · 1998 · Scripture
The Modern Literal Version New Testament is a long-running literal rendering of the New Testament, developed and revised throughout the internet era, a period in which digital distribution allowed translation projects to…
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1998 · Scripture
The Scriptures is a distinct English Bible distinguished by its use of restored Hebrew names, transliterations, and Torah-oriented terminology in place of the conventional forms familiar from mainstream English versions. It covers…
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New Authorized Version Foundation editorial team · 1998 · Scripture
The Third Millennium Bible is a conservative modernization of the King James Version, undertaken as a revision rather than a fresh translation from the ancient sources. Its base text is the KJV,…
