New English Bible
Americannoun
noun
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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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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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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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Still, the language does not "fly as high" as that of the New English Bible, and Father Sloyan admits: "It may be said that, being American, we have done the lowbrow thing."
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