New English Bible
Americannoun
noun
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This mostly felicitous British rendition updates the New English Bible of 1970, shedding thees and thous and many male nouns and pronouns.
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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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Not only does the New English Bible give both an awesome grandeur and a biting sarcasm to God's words, but it also corrects for the first time several phrases long misrendered from the original Hebrew.
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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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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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