Bible in Translation : Ancient and English Versions,9780801022821

Bible in Translation : Ancient and English Versions

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ISBN13: 9780801022821
ISBN10: 0801022827
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-10-01
Publisher(s): Baker Academic
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Summary

Traces the history of Bible translation from the ancient versions to today's popular versions, offering evaluative comments along the way

Author Biography

Bruce M. Metzger (Ph.D., Princeton University) is George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary. An expert in ancient biblical manuscripts, he has participated in three major Bible translation projects and was chairman of the NRSV translation committee.

Table of Contents

Preface 8(5)
Part 1: Ancient Versions
Ancient Versions of the Old Testament Made for the Use of Jews
13(12)
The Septuagint
13(7)
The Jewish Targums
20(5)
Ancient Versions Intended Chiefly for Christians
25(30)
The Syriac Versions
25(4)
The Latine Versions
29(6)
The Coptic Versions
35(3)
The Gothic Version
38(2)
The Armenian Version
40(3)
The Georgian Version
43(1)
The Ethiopic Version
44(2)
The Arabic Versions
46(1)
The Sogdian Version
47(1)
The Old Church Slavonic Version
47(3)
The Nubian Version
50(5)
Part 2: English Versions
English Bibles before the King James Version
55(15)
The Beginnings of the English Bible
55(1)
The Wycliffite Bible (1382; 1388)
56(2)
Tyndale and the First Printed English New Testament (1526)
58(2)
Coverdale and the First Complete Printed Bible in English (1535)
60(1)
Mathew's Bible (1537)
61(1)
Taverner's Bible (1539)
62(1)
The Great Bible (1539)
62(1)
Edmund Becke's Bibles (1549; 1551)
63(1)
The Geneva Bible (1560)
64(2)
The Bishops' Bible (1568)
66(1)
The Rheims-Douay Bible (1582-1610)
67(3)
The King James Bible (1611)
70(11)
Between the King James Bible and the Revised Version
81(18)
Edward Harwood's New Testament (1768)
81(2)
Charles Thomson's Bible (1808)
83(7)
Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
90(2)
Julia E. Smith's Bible (1876)
92(7)
The British Revised Version (1881-85) and the American Standard Version (1901)
99(6)
Early Modern-Speech Versions
105(12)
The Twentieth Century New Testament (1901; 1904)
106(4)
Weymouth's New Testament in Modern Speech (1903)
110(2)
Moffatt's Translation of the Bible (1913; 1924-25)
112(1)
Smith and Goodspeed's American Translation (1923; 1927)
113(4)
The Revised Standard Version (1952)
117(6)
The Jerusalem Bible (1966)
123(4)
The New American Bible (1970)
127(5)
The New English Bible (1970)
132(6)
The New International Version (1978)
138(4)
Jewish Translations
142(7)
Translations Sponsored by the Jewish Publication Society (1917; 1985)
142(2)
Heinz W. Cassirer's New Testament (1989)
144(2)
David H. Stern's Complete Jewish Bible (1998)
146(3)
Revision after Revision
149(14)
The New American Standard Bible (1971; updated ed. 1995)
149(2)
The New Jerusalem Bible (1985)
151(1)
Revised New Testament, New American Bible (1986)
152(1)
The Revised English Bible (1989)
153(2)
The New Revised Standard Version (1990)
155(8)
Simplified, Easy-to-Read Versions
163(12)
The Basic English Bible (1949)
163(1)
J. B. Phillips's Version (1958; rev. ed. 1972)
164(3)
The Good News Bible (Today's English Version) (1976)
167(1)
The Reader's Digest Bible (1982)
168(2)
The Contemporary English Version (1995)
170(1)
New International Reader's Version (1996)
171(4)
Paraphrases of the English Bible
175(11)
Henry Hammond's Paraphrase and Annotations (1653)
175(1)
Philip Doddridge's Family Expositor (1739-56)
176(1)
F. F. Bruce's Expanded Paraphrase of the Epistles of Paul (1965)
177(2)
Kenneth Taylor's Living Bible, Paraphrased (NT 1967; entire Bible 1971)
179(3)
Eugene Peterson's The Message (NT 1993; OT Wisdom books 1997; OT Prophets 2000)
182(4)
Postscript 186(5)
Subject Index 191(6)
Scripture Index 197

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