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To the uninitiated, the Bible is the Bible. To get one, you go to a bookstore and ask for a Bible. Readers of BR know better. The English-speaking student of the Bible is blessed with dozens of translations in hundreds of editions. What distinguishes them one from another?

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Footnotes

Leonard J. Greenspoon, “Mission to Alexandria: Truth and Legend About the Creation of the Septuagint, the First Bible Translation,” BR 05:04.

Frank Moore Cross, “New Directions in Dead Sea Scroll Research I: The Text Behind the Text of the Hebrew Bible,” BR 01:02.

The NEB started with Eberhard Nestle’s late 19th-century Novum Testamentum Graece as a basis; choosing among variant manuscript readings, the editors created the text, later published as The Greek New Testament (1964), edited by R.V.G. Tasker. The REB, a 1989 revision of the NEB, draws heavily on the later work of Kurt Aland in Novum Testamentum Grace (1979). Another respected basic text is The Greek New Testament (1983), published by the United Bible Societies.

Harvey Minkoff, “Problems of Translations: Concern for the Text Versus Concern for the Reader,” BR 04:04.

Eldon Epp, “Should ‘The Book’ Be Panned?” BR 02:02.