Featured Your Five Favorite Bible Translations?

What 1929 edition was a ASV revision? You never answered our question? See post #97?

 

The current one (NIV2011).

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The 1929 ASV published by Thomas Nelson (at the time it was Thomas and Sons)

 

Was it an actual revision, or just a different printing?

 

Was it a revision? Or just a new printing? Did they make changes to the translation, or just correct printing errors?

 

No idea.

 

It was probably just a renewal of the copywrite. Not a new revision. Unworthy to be listed. I thought you were speaking about a bible that I was unaware of. Not that I am aware of all English editions of the bible.

 

It struck me that someone might be curious about these Japanese versions, so here they are in English:

1. The Lifeline NT. This is the new translation by my team from the TR. It is the first ever in modern colloquial Japanese from the TR. After many years of work, the PDF has finally been sent to the printer, and we will soon have 10,000 copies for distribution. I'm going to attach a PDF of the cover.
2. The KJV. Well, of course! I grew up with it, love the language.
3. The Shinkaiyaku, or "New Japanese Bible" (usually), or more literally, the "New Revised Translation," as in revised from the Classical Japanese Bible. It was sponsored by the Lockman Foundation, and done with the same translation principles as the NASB.
4. The Classical Japanese Bible. A beautiful version, though the NT is from an early Nestle's text, and I'd prefer a Byzantine text.
5. The Nagai NT. A one man version in classical Japanese from the Stephanus TR, done by a Japanese scholar/pastor, Brother Nagai (永井), in the 1930's.

 

Well, yes and no. On the one hand, they back foreign Bible translations with their profits. On the other hand, they are extremely strict about copyright. (For the record, I believe Bible translations should be copyrighted to prevent profiteering and other unethical practices, then immediately released into the public domain. After all, it's God's Word, not ours.)

In the case of the Japanese translation, the Lockman Foundation sued The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM) in 1991 about the copyright of the Japanese version, led by TEAM missionaries. Here is a link to the lawsuit: 930 F.2d 764

My understanding is that the case eventually went to the Supreme Court (of Japan?), where Lockman won the case. TEAM and their Japanese denomination, Domei, had to pay for the rights and the copyright to their own translation. That is simply awful, IMO. Thank God for the Lockman Foundation and the translations they back, but they really blew it on this one.

 

Yeah, can't trust any of us. As you know, "The fear of man brings a snare, But whoever trusts in the LORD shall be safe" (Prov. 29:25).

 

I could see why they revised the Nas from 1977 to 1995. as they changed from using the 23 A to the 26 A edition, but no real need for the 2020 edition!

 

maybe, but think that the LSB was the revision needed, not the 2020 edition!

 

The 1995 though had already taken care of the "wooden" reading of the 1977 version, so no real need for the 2020!