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New English Bible

American  

noun

  1. an English translation (1970) of the Bible into contemporary idiom, directed by Anglican and other Protestant churches of Great Britain.


New English Bible British  

noun

  1. a new Modern English version of the Bible and Apocrypha, published in full in 1970

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But the New English Bible that is being translated by British Protestant scholars is no such trifle.

From Time Magazine Archive

With these words, Britain's eminent theologian, Congregationalist Charles H. Dodd, 76, announced last week the secret project that he has been directing for the past 13 years�The New English Bible.

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But as a popular work now intended both for broad public consumption and church use, the New English Bible may well be the most notable effort in centuries.

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To be sure, the "present result" lacks the literary cadences of The New English Bible and the translator's precision of the American Bible Society's Good News for Modern Man.

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Now all this is changed; Naked Lunch will now be available at the friendly neighborhood bookstore, right there beside Youngblood Haivke and The New English Bible.

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