Month: August 2024

Holy New Covenant (aka Galilee Translation) (2002)

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The Holy New Covenant Translation was created by the Galilee Translation Project.  A group of Christians translated the New Testament while in Palestine in 1975.  It was distributed in the area of Palestine and used in many foreign schools to teach the English language.  It was also translated into Arabic and distributed in the Middle East.  The translation was again printed in 1999, and placed online and in the public domain in 2002.




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Ronald Knox NT

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Ronald Knox NT was requested to make this translation of Scripture by Cardinal Hinsley and the English Hierarchy. He follows the Vulgate; where the meaning of the Vulgate is ambiguous he consults the Greek text; where the Vulgate reading differs from the Greek, the meaning of the Greek is given a footnote. In his translation he aims at clarity above all, using no expression that is not current in modern English. The illustrations for this edition were selected from museums and art galleries in the United States and England. -Description from Amazon.com

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Rotherham’s Emphasised Bible

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Rotherham’s Emphasised Bible Joseph Bryant Rotherham’s Emphasized Bible (abbreviated EBR to avoid confusion with the REB) is a translation of the Bible which uses various methods, such as “emphatic idiom” and special diacritical marks, to bring out nuances of the underlying Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic texts. Rotherham was a Bible scholar and minister of the Churches of Christ, who described his goal as “placing the reader of the present time in as good a position as that occupied by the reader of the first century for understanding the Apostolic Writings”.-description from wikipedia

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