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American Standard Version (ASV)

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The American Standard Version Bible

From Wikipedia: The American Standard Version (ASV) is rooted in the work that was done with the Revised Version (RV) (a late 19th-century British revision of the King James Version of 1611). In 1870, an invitation was extended to American religious leaders for scholars to work on the RV project. A year later, Protestant theologian Philip Schaff chose 30 scholars representing the denominations of Baptist, Congregationalist, Dutch Reformed, Friends, Methodist, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Protestant Episcopal, and Unitarian. These scholars began work in 1872.




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Apostolic Bible Polyglot Greek-English Interlinear

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The Apostolic Bible Polyglot (ABP), originally published in 2003 is a Bible translation by Charles VanderPool.[1] The ABP is an English translation with a Greek interlinear gloss and is keyed to a concordance. The numbering system, called “AB-Strong’s”, is a modified version of Strong’s concordance, which was designed only to handle the traditional Hebrew Masoretic Text of the Old Testament, and the Greek text of the New Testament. Strong’s concordance doesn’t have numbering for the Greek O.T. The ABP utilizes a Greek Septuagint base for the O.T. and, therefore, required a modified system. The numbers and the Greek word appear immediately above the English translation instead of side-by-side, as is common in many interlinears.




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Wesley’s New Testament 1755

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John Wesley New Testament (1755) John Wesley’s translation of the New Testament was published in 1755. He also translated the Old Testament, but this was not published until 1764. Wesley’s translation of the New Testament was meant to correct thousands of errors that were contained within the King James Version, and he consulted the Greek texts directly in order to do this.Description from library.garrett.edu/collections/special.




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