The Bible in translation ancient and English versions
Metzger, Bruce M.
The Bible in translation ancient and English versions Bruce M. Metzger - 1st ed. - Grand Rapids : Baker Academic, 2001. ©2001. - 1 online resource (156 pages)
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Ancient Versions -- 1. Ancient Versions of the Old Testament Made for the Use of Jews -- The Septuagint -- The Jewish Targums -- 2. Ancient Versions Intended Chiefly for Christians -- The Syriac Versions -- The Latin Versions -- The Coptic Versions -- The Gothic Version -- The Armenian Version -- The Georgian Version -- The Ethiopic Version -- The Arabic Versions -- The Sogdian Version -- The Old Church Slavonic Version -- The Nubian Version -- Part 2: English Versions -- 3. English Bibles before the King James Version -- The Beginnings of the English Bible -- The Wycliffite Bible (1382 -- 1388) -- Tyndale and the First Printed English New Testament (1526) -- Coverdale and the First Complete Printed Bible in English (1535) -- Matthew's Bible (1537) -- Taverner's Bible (1539) -- The Great Bible (1539) -- Edmund Becke's Bibles (1549 -- 1551) -- The Geneva Bible (1560) -- The Bishops' Bible (1568) -- The Rheims-Douay Bible (1582-1610) -- 4. The King James Bible (1611) -- 5. Between the King James Bible and the Revised Version -- Edward Harwood's New Testament (1768) -- Charles Thomson's Bible (1808) -- Noah Webster's Bible (1833) -- Julia E. Smith's Bible (1876) -- 6. The British Revised Version (1881-85) and the American Standard Version (1901) -- 7. Early Modern-Speech Versions -- The Twentieth Century New Testament (1901 -- 1904) -- Weymouth's New Testament in Modern Speech (1903) -- Moffatt's Translation of the Bible (1913 -- 1924- 25) -- Smith and Goodspeed's American Translation (1923 -- 1927) -- 8. The Revised Standard Version (1952) -- 9. The Jerusalem Bible (1966) -- 10. The New American Bible (1970) -- 11. The New English Bible (1970) -- 12. The New International Version (1978) -- 13. Jewish Translations -- Translations Sponsored by the Jewish Publication Society (1917. 1985) -- Heinz W. Cassirer's New Testament (1989) -- David H. Stern's Complete Jewish Bible (1998) -- 14. Revision after Revision -- The New American Standard Bible (1971 -- updated ed. 1995) -- The New Jerusalem Bible (1985) -- Revised New Testament, New American Bible (1986) -- The Revised English Bible (1989) -- The New Revised Standard Version (1990) -- 15. Simplified, Easy-to-Read Versions -- The Basic English Bible (1949) -- J. B. Phillips's Version (1958 -- rev. ed. 1972) -- The Good News Bible (Today's English Version) (1976) -- The Reader's Digest Bible (1982) -- The Contemporary English Version (1995) -- New International Reader's Version (1996) -- 16. Paraphrases of the English Bible -- Henry Hammond's Paraphrase and Annotations (1653) -- Philip Doddridge's Family Expositor (1739-56) -- F. F. Bruce's Expanded Paraphrase of the Epistles of Paul (1965) -- Kenneth Taylor's Living Bible, Paraphrased (NT 1967 -- entire Bible 1971) -- Eugene Peterson's The Message (NT 1993 -- OT Wisdom books 1997 -- OT Prophets 2000) -- Postscript -- Subject Index -- Scripture Index -- Notes.
Traces the history of Bible translation from the ancient versions to today's popular versions, offering evaluative comments along the way.
9781585583492
Bibel
Übersetzung
Englisch
Bible-Versions-History. Bible.-English-Versions-History.
Fernzugriff
The Bible in translation ancient and English versions Bruce M. Metzger - 1st ed. - Grand Rapids : Baker Academic, 2001. ©2001. - 1 online resource (156 pages)
E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Ancient Versions -- 1. Ancient Versions of the Old Testament Made for the Use of Jews -- The Septuagint -- The Jewish Targums -- 2. Ancient Versions Intended Chiefly for Christians -- The Syriac Versions -- The Latin Versions -- The Coptic Versions -- The Gothic Version -- The Armenian Version -- The Georgian Version -- The Ethiopic Version -- The Arabic Versions -- The Sogdian Version -- The Old Church Slavonic Version -- The Nubian Version -- Part 2: English Versions -- 3. English Bibles before the King James Version -- The Beginnings of the English Bible -- The Wycliffite Bible (1382 -- 1388) -- Tyndale and the First Printed English New Testament (1526) -- Coverdale and the First Complete Printed Bible in English (1535) -- Matthew's Bible (1537) -- Taverner's Bible (1539) -- The Great Bible (1539) -- Edmund Becke's Bibles (1549 -- 1551) -- The Geneva Bible (1560) -- The Bishops' Bible (1568) -- The Rheims-Douay Bible (1582-1610) -- 4. The King James Bible (1611) -- 5. Between the King James Bible and the Revised Version -- Edward Harwood's New Testament (1768) -- Charles Thomson's Bible (1808) -- Noah Webster's Bible (1833) -- Julia E. Smith's Bible (1876) -- 6. The British Revised Version (1881-85) and the American Standard Version (1901) -- 7. Early Modern-Speech Versions -- The Twentieth Century New Testament (1901 -- 1904) -- Weymouth's New Testament in Modern Speech (1903) -- Moffatt's Translation of the Bible (1913 -- 1924- 25) -- Smith and Goodspeed's American Translation (1923 -- 1927) -- 8. The Revised Standard Version (1952) -- 9. The Jerusalem Bible (1966) -- 10. The New American Bible (1970) -- 11. The New English Bible (1970) -- 12. The New International Version (1978) -- 13. Jewish Translations -- Translations Sponsored by the Jewish Publication Society (1917. 1985) -- Heinz W. Cassirer's New Testament (1989) -- David H. Stern's Complete Jewish Bible (1998) -- 14. Revision after Revision -- The New American Standard Bible (1971 -- updated ed. 1995) -- The New Jerusalem Bible (1985) -- Revised New Testament, New American Bible (1986) -- The Revised English Bible (1989) -- The New Revised Standard Version (1990) -- 15. Simplified, Easy-to-Read Versions -- The Basic English Bible (1949) -- J. B. Phillips's Version (1958 -- rev. ed. 1972) -- The Good News Bible (Today's English Version) (1976) -- The Reader's Digest Bible (1982) -- The Contemporary English Version (1995) -- New International Reader's Version (1996) -- 16. Paraphrases of the English Bible -- Henry Hammond's Paraphrase and Annotations (1653) -- Philip Doddridge's Family Expositor (1739-56) -- F. F. Bruce's Expanded Paraphrase of the Epistles of Paul (1965) -- Kenneth Taylor's Living Bible, Paraphrased (NT 1967 -- entire Bible 1971) -- Eugene Peterson's The Message (NT 1993 -- OT Wisdom books 1997 -- OT Prophets 2000) -- Postscript -- Subject Index -- Scripture Index -- Notes.
Traces the history of Bible translation from the ancient versions to today's popular versions, offering evaluative comments along the way.
9781585583492
Bibel
Übersetzung
Englisch
Bible-Versions-History. Bible.-English-Versions-History.
Fernzugriff