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.

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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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Example Sentences

He earned a double first at Cambridge, has written nine books and coordinated the translation of the New English Bible from Greek and Hebrew.

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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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The New English Bible, its translators hope, will not only introduce the Scripture to those for whom it has been a closed book but will also freshen its meaning for those who know it well.

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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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Jesuit Corbishley argues that Britain's still incomplete New English Bible could easily be modified for Catholic use; other Catholic scholars favor the Revised Standard Version, which is used in many Catholic seminaries.

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