The New English Bible with the Apocrypha

by Joint Committee on the New Translation of the Bible (Corporate author)

Paper Book, 1970

Status

Available

Call number

BIBLES 220.5206 NEB 1970

Genres

Religion & Spirituality

All Topics

Nonfiction

General Nonfiction

Collection

Bibles

Publication

New York, Oxford University Press, c1970.

Description

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.

User reviews

LibraryThing member astherest

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.

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LibraryThing member zappad0g

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.

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LibraryThing member auntieknickers

This was one of the first "new translations" since the Revised Standard Version. Still useful.

LibraryThing member wrichard

In my view the best translation of the Bible

LibraryThing member saintbedefg

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.

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