The Holy Bible: The New English Bible With Apocrypha
by Joint Committee on the New Translation of the Bibl, Cambridge University Press (Author), New English Bible, Arnold J. Tkacik (Editor)
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A translation of the bible and Apocrypha including annotations that deal with the literary, historical theological, geographical, and archaeological aspects of the text. Includes cross-references from one passage to another.Tags
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lhungsbe My go-to version of the Bible. No additions or deletions. Easy to read.
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If you want to read the Bible, which I'm not necessarily recommending, you could do a lot worse than this translation. Designed to be fairly readable by modern English speakers and yet do justice to the poetry, I found this the first Bible that I was able to understand what it was saying without notes.
My favorite English translation. Editors at least once footnote a verse, and admit the translation could mean exactly the opposite! Verse is distinguished from prose, which is helpful. The Apocryphal books deleted from Protestant bibles in the nineteenth century are here. They're important, as is the process by which the Bible has been collected.
A pleasant easy to read translation, This has become "The Bible in the Bathroom" at our house
The many types of books in our bible are here arranged with chapter and verse numbers in the outside margins only and the poetic language is beautiful.
Probably the most readable bible ever written. Quite interesting really.
In my view the best translation of the Bible
This was one of the first "new translations" since the Revised Standard Version. Still useful.
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- Canonical title
- The Holy Bible: The New English Bible With Apocrypha
- Original publication date
- 1970 (second edition New Testament, first edition Old Testament) (second edition New Testament, first edition Old Testament); 1961 (First Edition New Testament 1961) (First Edition New Testament 1961)
- Important places
- Holy Land
- Important events
- Creation (Genesis 1+2); Life and death of Jesus
- First words
- In the beginning of creation, when God made heaven and earth, the earth was without form and void, with darkness over the face of the abyss, and a mighty wind that swept over the surface of the waters.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)He who gives this testimony speaks: "Yes, I am coming soon!" Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you all.
- Original language
- English UK
- Disambiguation notice
- Please do not combine with The New English Bible: the Apocrypha or The New English Bible (O.T. and N.T.). This contains the O.T., N.T., and the O.T. Apocrypha.
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- 1,452
- Popularity
- 16,078
- Reviews
- 10
- Rating
- (3.94)
- Languages
- English, Hebrew
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 15
- ASINs
- 31
