Cumbentaitd PRESBYTERIAN APRIL 14, 1970 Appraisals of The New English Bible READS GOOD The New English Bible rates as a superb story teller, bringing the narratives of the Old Testament into clearer focus and giving the facts with more accuracy and in...
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Cumbentaitd PRESBYTERIAN APRIL 14, 1970 Appraisals of The New English Bible READS GOOD The New English Bible rates as a superb story teller, bringing the narratives of the Old Testament into clearer focus and giving the facts with more accuracy and in excellent lan guage. No one will ever find every item in any translation quite to his taste. For the moment, the New English Bible comes closer to the sat isfactory translation. The next translation of the Bible may well turn out to be the best one, but if it is so to be, it will have to be mighty good. For the New English Bible reads good as the Good Book should. —Maynard Shelly, in The Mennonite. RICHNESS AND MAJESTY For all its traits as a scholarly production and as a translation in modern idiom, the NEB exposes the richness and majesty of the English language, in its current stage of development, in a way one feels modern English literature fails to do. This would be due in part to the SHOULD PROVE WIDELY HELPFUL work of the panel
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