Revised English Bible

Oxford University Press | 1989 | Oxford University Press

[TexasKamaAina]

The Revised English Bible is a radical revision of The New English Bible which was a phenomenal best-seller when it was introduced in 1970....Infused with twenty years of new scholarship and study, The Revised English Bible is the most readable and accurate contemporary English translation of the ancient texts available...The Revised English Bible has been warmly endorsed by a broad spectrum of religious leadership and laity. Free from arachaic and outmoded language, thoroughly contemporary, elegant and accessible, it is the Bible for the English-speaking world on the threshold of a new century.

[TexasKamaAina]

Has anybody read the Revised English Bible? If so, I'd appreciate your comments. It seems to me to be the best contemporary translation available, yet it is so little used or known. Frequently, when I compare the notes about a difficult passage in my KJV Bible and then read the REB version, I find that the REB version conforms to the KJV commmentary. I find no doctrinal bias, no feminist views, and elegant literary style. Why is this translation of the bible so ignored? Or is it?

[theartfuldodger]

Didn't you know that the very words of the 1611/1769 KJV are inspired? Any attempt to create a readable translation is corrupting the inspired word of God. < /sarcasm>

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

I have never read a REV. Could you pick out some verses and give us the REV version of them here.

Rom.8:29, John 6:63, John 3:6, for starters:)

Becky

[TexasKamaAina]

Romans 8:29 - For those whom God knew before ever they were, he also ordained to share the likeness of his Son, so that he might be the eldest among a large family of brothers;

John 6:63 - It is the spirit that gives live; the flesh can achieve nothing; the words I have spoken to you are both spirit and life.

John 3:6 - Flesh can give birth only to flesh; it is spirit that gives birth to spirit.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Thanks for the verses. Those say pretty much what I believe them to be saying. BTW, what "religion" do you follow?

Becky