Author: Michael Johnson
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781497365018
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
The World English Bible is a modern, high-quality, public domain translation of the Holy Bible. This edition includes both Old and New Testaments. For readers familiar with the Amplified, NLT, and NIV translations, the World English Bible attempts to maximize the strengths and minimize the weaknesses of each. The text is based on the American Standard Version 1901 Bible, Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia Old Testament, and Byzantine Majority Text New Testament. The text of the World English Bible is in the public domain and can be quoted and distributed without limitation. It is intended to be an accessible, understandable, easy-to-copy-and-share translation of the scriptures for English-speakers around the world. The project was conceived by Michael Paul Johnson in 1994 and was first published in 1997 by Rainbow Missions, Inc. Using the Internet, Michael and his team of volunteers continue to refine the text. This volume is a printing of the online Old and New Testaments texts as of February 23, 2014. For additional features and details, including the latest version of the World English Bible, please visit worldenglishbible.org.
World English Bible
Author: Michael Johnson
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781497365018
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
The World English Bible is a modern, high-quality, public domain translation of the Holy Bible. This edition includes both Old and New Testaments. For readers familiar with the Amplified, NLT, and NIV translations, the World English Bible attempts to maximize the strengths and minimize the weaknesses of each. The text is based on the American Standard Version 1901 Bible, Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia Old Testament, and Byzantine Majority Text New Testament. The text of the World English Bible is in the public domain and can be quoted and distributed without limitation. It is intended to be an accessible, understandable, easy-to-copy-and-share translation of the scriptures for English-speakers around the world. The project was conceived by Michael Paul Johnson in 1994 and was first published in 1997 by Rainbow Missions, Inc. Using the Internet, Michael and his team of volunteers continue to refine the text. This volume is a printing of the online Old and New Testaments texts as of February 23, 2014. For additional features and details, including the latest version of the World English Bible, please visit worldenglishbible.org.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781497365018
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
The World English Bible is a modern, high-quality, public domain translation of the Holy Bible. This edition includes both Old and New Testaments. For readers familiar with the Amplified, NLT, and NIV translations, the World English Bible attempts to maximize the strengths and minimize the weaknesses of each. The text is based on the American Standard Version 1901 Bible, Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia Old Testament, and Byzantine Majority Text New Testament. The text of the World English Bible is in the public domain and can be quoted and distributed without limitation. It is intended to be an accessible, understandable, easy-to-copy-and-share translation of the scriptures for English-speakers around the world. The project was conceived by Michael Paul Johnson in 1994 and was first published in 1997 by Rainbow Missions, Inc. Using the Internet, Michael and his team of volunteers continue to refine the text. This volume is a printing of the online Old and New Testaments texts as of February 23, 2014. For additional features and details, including the latest version of the World English Bible, please visit worldenglishbible.org.
A Visual History of the English Bible
Author: Donald L. Brake
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Presents the history of the translation of the Bible into English, from the fourteenth century to the twentieth century.
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Presents the history of the translation of the Bible into English, from the fourteenth century to the twentieth century.
How to Choose a Translation for All Its Worth
Author: Gordon D. Fee
Publisher: Zondervan Academic
ISBN: 0310539234
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
With so many Bible translations available today, how can you find those that will be most useful to you? What is the difference between a translation that calls itself “literal” and one that is more “meaning-based”? And what difference does it make for you as a reader of God’s Word? How to Choose a Translation for All Its Worth brings clarity and insight to the current debate over translations and translation theories. Written by two seasoned Bible translators, here is an authoritative guide through the maze of translations issues, written in language that everyday Bible readers can understand. Learn the truth about both the word-for-word and meaning-for-meaning translations approaches. Find out what goes into the whole process of translation, and what makes a translation accurate and reliable. Discover the strengths and potential weaknesses of different contemporary English Bible versions. In the midst of the present confusion over translations, this authoritative book speaks with an objective, fair-minded, and reassuring voice to help pastors, everyday Bible readers, and students make wise, well-informed choices about which Bible translations they can depend on and which will best meet their needs.
Publisher: Zondervan Academic
ISBN: 0310539234
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
With so many Bible translations available today, how can you find those that will be most useful to you? What is the difference between a translation that calls itself “literal” and one that is more “meaning-based”? And what difference does it make for you as a reader of God’s Word? How to Choose a Translation for All Its Worth brings clarity and insight to the current debate over translations and translation theories. Written by two seasoned Bible translators, here is an authoritative guide through the maze of translations issues, written in language that everyday Bible readers can understand. Learn the truth about both the word-for-word and meaning-for-meaning translations approaches. Find out what goes into the whole process of translation, and what makes a translation accurate and reliable. Discover the strengths and potential weaknesses of different contemporary English Bible versions. In the midst of the present confusion over translations, this authoritative book speaks with an objective, fair-minded, and reassuring voice to help pastors, everyday Bible readers, and students make wise, well-informed choices about which Bible translations they can depend on and which will best meet their needs.
The English Bible in the Early Modern World
Author: Robert Armstrong
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004347976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
The English Bible in the Early Modern World addresses the most significant book available in the English language in the centuries after the Reformation, and investigates its impact on popular religion and reading practices, and on theology, religious controversy and intellectual history between 1530 and 1700. Individual chapters discuss the responses of both clergy and laity to the sacred text, with particular emphasis on the range of settings in which the Bible was encountered and the variety of responses prompted by engagement with the Scriptures. Particular attention is given to debates around the text and interpretation of the Bible, to an emerging Protestant understanding of Scripture and to challenges it faced over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004347976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
The English Bible in the Early Modern World addresses the most significant book available in the English language in the centuries after the Reformation, and investigates its impact on popular religion and reading practices, and on theology, religious controversy and intellectual history between 1530 and 1700. Individual chapters discuss the responses of both clergy and laity to the sacred text, with particular emphasis on the range of settings in which the Bible was encountered and the variety of responses prompted by engagement with the Scriptures. Particular attention is given to debates around the text and interpretation of the Bible, to an emerging Protestant understanding of Scripture and to challenges it faced over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Holy Bible (NIV)
Author: Various Authors,
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310294142
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 6793
Book Description
The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310294142
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 6793
Book Description
The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.
World English Bible
Author: World English Bible
Publisher: LOGOS MEDIA
ISBN: 8363837598
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 3244
Book Description
Key features of the World English Bible: * The Majority Text used as the basis for the New Testament, * God’s Proper Name in the Old Testament translated as “Yahweh”, * Over 1,000 translation notes provided throughout the volume, offering important information concerning the translation of the Bible text (original wording, multiple possible readings, significant variants). This ebook edition offers a very intuitive and user-friendly navigation.
Publisher: LOGOS MEDIA
ISBN: 8363837598
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 3244
Book Description
Key features of the World English Bible: * The Majority Text used as the basis for the New Testament, * God’s Proper Name in the Old Testament translated as “Yahweh”, * Over 1,000 translation notes provided throughout the volume, offering important information concerning the translation of the Bible text (original wording, multiple possible readings, significant variants). This ebook edition offers a very intuitive and user-friendly navigation.
The New Cambridge Paragraph Bible, with the Apocrypha
Author: Baker Publishing Group
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521843867
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 1904
Book Description
The standard editions of the 1611 King James Bible (or Authorised Version) currently available give, with little variation, the text as established by the Oxford edition of 1769. They give the reader, therefore, a seventeenth-century text in mid-eighteenth century clothes - clothes which are neither original nor modern. In this new edition of the King James Version the text has been collated with the translators' original work in order to give the reader as closely as possible the exact text on which the translators decided. It has also been given consistent modern spelling and presentation in order to make it easier to read and study than standard editions. The text is presented is paragraph form, with marginal notes. The type is 10/12.5 Swift.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521843867
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 1904
Book Description
The standard editions of the 1611 King James Bible (or Authorised Version) currently available give, with little variation, the text as established by the Oxford edition of 1769. They give the reader, therefore, a seventeenth-century text in mid-eighteenth century clothes - clothes which are neither original nor modern. In this new edition of the King James Version the text has been collated with the translators' original work in order to give the reader as closely as possible the exact text on which the translators decided. It has also been given consistent modern spelling and presentation in order to make it easier to read and study than standard editions. The text is presented is paragraph form, with marginal notes. The type is 10/12.5 Swift.
The History of the English Bible
Author: Thomas Harwood Pattison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The English Bible
Author: Mrs. Hannah O'Brien Chaplin Conant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The English Bible
Author: Hannah Chaplin Conant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description