The New Testament: New English Bible

by Oxford University Press

Series: The New English Bible

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The New English Bible, completed in 1970, was the culmination of more than twenty years' work by scholars and literary advisers representing the major Protestant churches of the British Isles. An authoritative translation made directly from the best Hebrew and Greek texts and founded on all the resources of contemporary scholarship, it aimed to present the full meaning of the original in clear and natural modern English. This approach marked a departure from the prevailing Bible translation philosophy and to this day the NEB has a significant place in the history of the Bible in English. The New English Bible is now reissued in this classic 'Library Edition' format to coincide with the reissue of the complete Cambridge Bible Commentaries series, which was itself based on the NEB text.… (more)

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Gordon_C_Olson_Libr | Apr 5, 2022 |

Superceded by Complete Bible NEB, cf.

PAFM | Oct 19, 2019 |

This is the NT version of what the full Bible we now have, released 10 years later. Jerry and Richard determined we did not need the older NT-only versions (9/2015). They were actually listed as 220 Win and 225 Win

PAFM | Oct 19, 2019 |

Restoring the text of long-gone Hellenistic Greek autographs is difficult, and compounded where literal translation is involved. The task is complicated by variant texts which continue to be discovered. Thus, "There is not at the present time any critical text which would command the same degree of general acceptance as the Revisers' text did in its day." [vii] (

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keylawk | Aug 29, 2012 |

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The New English Bible successfully combines readable prose with, what I am assured is, an accurate translation.

It is one of very few popular biblical translations to genuinely start from scratch, rather than just rehashing the KJV yet again. The desire to get back to the sources is, of course, an admirable one which places the editors in the tradition of Jerome, Erasmus, and Luther.

The NEB was also originally conceived as a spectacular ecumenical project, with pretty much every church body going having a hand in it.

With so much going for it, it is a pity that everyone favours the NIV (bad) and the NRSV (boring).

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The New English Bible

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The Holy Bible: The New English Bible With Apocrypha by Joint Committee Bible (indirect)

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The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman

Messias : en mangaberättelse by Hidenori Kumai

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The New Testament: New English Bible

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c. 50 AD - c. 120 AD

1961: New English Bible (New Testament Committee) translation (New Testament Committee)

1961: New English Bible (New Testament Committee | New Testament Committee)

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Ananias, of Damascus, high priest (Acts 9:10-18,22-24)

Andrew, the Apostle, Simon Peter's brother, crucified (Matthew 4:18-20,10:2, Mark 1:16-18,3:16-19,13:3-4, John 1:40-42,6:8-9)

Anna, daughter of Phanuel, prophetess, saw the baby Jesus (Luke 2:36-38)

Annas, high priest, questioned Jesus (John 18:12-24)

Barabbas, criminal released instead of Jesus (Mark 15:6-15, Luke 23:18-25, John 18:39-40)

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Christmas (Luke 2:1-21)

Easter (Matthew 28:1-10, Mark 16:1-13, Luke 24:1-12, John 20:1-18)

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The New English Bible, completed in 1970, was the culmination of more than twenty years' work by scholars and literary advisers representing the major Protestant churches of the British Isles. An authoritative translation made directly from the best Hebrew and Greek texts and founded on all the resources of contemporary scholarship, it aimed to present the full meaning of the original in clear and natural modern English. This approach marked a departure from the prevailing Bible translation philosophy and to this day the NEB has a significant place in the history of the Bible in English. The New English Bible is now reissued in this classic 'Library Edition' format to coincide with the reissue of the complete Cambridge Bible Commentaries series, which was itself based on the NEB text.

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This translation of the New Testament was undertaken with the object of providing English readers, whether familiar with the Bible or not, with a faithful rendering of the best available Greek text into the current speech of our time, and a rendering which should harvest the gains of recent biblical scholarship.

Presented to Jane Craford by William B. Graham, minister.

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