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Winner of the first ever quadruple Diamond award from ECPA!Celebrating 40 years and over 40 million lives touched, Tyndale is releasing the familiar green hardcover binding of The Living Biblewith a fresh new interior. Features include a Bible reading plan, four-color maps, and a topical concordance. The uncluttered, 2-column format makes for easy reading. The Living Bibleis a paraphrase of the Old and New Testaments. Its purpose is to say as exactly as possible what the writers of the show more Scriptures meant, and to say it simply, expanding where necessary for a clear understanding by the modern reader. show lessTags
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lhungsbe My go-to version of the Bible. No additions or deletions. Easy to read.
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The Living Bible Paraphrased by Kenneth N. Taylor is a popular Bible. It was written for parents who wanted to read the Bible for children to understand. The problem is that this Bible is paraphrased using the American Standard Version and does not go back to the original languages of the Bible. “Despite its great popularity (Tyndale House reports that by 1997 its sales of the Living Bible had exceeded 40 million copies), and despite the claims made by the publisher in its advertisements, very few scholars have given any encouragement to its use, and most have either ignored it or have strictly warned against it. 5 There are many problems. These involve much more than the general blurring and loss of significant details which must show more always accompany a reduction in reading-level. This loss of detail is regrettable enough; but aside from that, Taylor’s version contains venturesome interpretations that no scholar is likely to approve. Some of the misinterpretations are downright ludicrous—the sort of mistakes that only an uneducated man could make.” It can be found under the number 220.5/Bib. show less
not the most interesting translation, especially when you compare it to the Message
This paraphrase is simple and easy to read. Because I enjoy reading from it, it is one of the Bibles I read most often.
I dislike this translation very very much. This seems like a watered down version. It might as well be named, Bible of Dummies. Hmmmm, there's more truth in that than meets the eye.
A gift from a friend. Not a version I would personally use as a scholarly text.
Great Bible, easy to understand
A VERY CLEAR INDIVIDUAL INTERPRETATION OF THE BIBLE
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Kenneth N. Taylor (May 8, 1917 - June 10, 2005) was an American publisher and author, better known as the creator of the The Living Bible and the founder of Tyndale House, a Christian publishing company and Living Bibles International. Taylor completed high school in Oregon, and then enrolled at Wheaton College, graduating four years later as a show more pre-med student. From 1940-43 he attended Dallas Theological Seminary, completing his theological studies at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Chicago in 1946. Taylor was editor for His magazine, before became the director of Moody Press, and founding Tyndale House Publishers in 1963. Taylor began paraphrasing the New Testament Epistles on the train while commuting to Moody Press. The project took seven years to complete. Unable to find a publisher to print Living Letters, Taylor took out a loan for $2,000 and had it printed privately. It was not until Billy Graham recommended Living Letters from the pulpit that they became popular. The success of this first publication resulted in the founding of Tyndale House Publishers, the completion of the Living Bible, and the establishment of the Tyndale Foundation. he died on June 10, 2005 from heart failure. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Living history of Israel;: A paraphrase of Joshua, Judges, I and II Samuel, I and II Kings, I and II Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah by Kenneth Nathaniel Taylor
Living Books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy Paraphrased by Kenneth N. Taylor
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- Canonical title
- The Living Bible
- Original title
- The Living Bible
- Alternate titles
- The Holy Bible : Living Bible Edition; The Living Bible, Paraphrased
- Epigraph
- I have here translated, brethren and sisters most dear and tenderly beloved in Christ, the New Testament for your spiritual edifying, consolation and solace, exhortynge instantly and besechynge those that are better sene in t... (show all)he tongues than I, and that have higher gifts of grace to interpret the sense of Scripture, and meaning of the Spirit, than I, to consider and ponder my labor, and that with the spirit of meekness. And if they perceive in any places that I have not attained the very sense of the tongue, or meaning of the scripture, or have not given the right English word, that they put to their hands to amend it, remembering that so is their duty to do. For we have not received the gifts of God for ourselves only or for to hide them; but for to bestow them unto the honoring of God and Christ and edifying of the congregation, which is the body of Christ. -From Wm. Tyndale's Prologue to the first printed English New Testament published in 1525
- First words
- When God began creating the heavens and the earth, the earth was at first a shaeless, chaotic mass, with the Spirit of God brooding over the dark vapors.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen!
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