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In most of the world, it would be unthinkable for the syndics of the country’s two leading university presses to commission a new vernacular edition of the Bible. Yet in the middle of the twentieth century, such a project was still imaginable to the grey men of Oxford and Cambridge University Presses.

The result is the unforgettable New English Bible. (more…)

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Marketed in many shapes and colors, the TNIV is a twenty-first century update of the New International Version, which in the space of just three decades has become the English language Bible of choice if sales records are the criterion that matters. (more…)

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When the full version of the New International Version of the Bible was published late in the 1970s, no one would have believed how quickly it has become the default version of masses of English-speaking Bible readers. It marked a kind of coming of age of the evangelical movement and was tribute to the maturity of the scholars that made such a project achievable. That such scholars often sported evangelical credentials and that the Bible itself was published by one of the Big Three evangelical publishers lead some to fear and criticize the version as ‘the evangelical Bible’. (more…)

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Cuando se trata de la versión de la Biblia que uno usa en las Américas, se está entrando en un campo de minas. Por décadas, los evangélicos se diferenciaron de los católicos latinoamericanos no sólo por su hábito de leer la Biblia fervientemente, sino también por la Biblia que leyeron: no pudo ser ni más ni menos que la venerable Reina Valera. (more…)

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