New English Bible
- noun
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Nueva Biblia Inglesa
- The revisers have drawn attention in footnotes to variant readings that may result in significant alternative understanding or interpretation of the text, and in particular to those readings that were followed in The New English Bible, but which now seem to the revisers to be less probable than those used in this revision.
Examples
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Every contemporary translation we have checked (the New American Bible, both the original edition of 1970 and the revised NT version of 1988, the New International Version, the New Jerusalem Bible, the New Revised Standard Version, and the New English Bible) takes the passage in that sense.
Academic text (1992) -
NEB: New English Bible
Academic text (2007) -
Those who prepared the first draft of The New English Bible New Testament usually started with the text originally published by Eberhard Nestle at the end of the nineteenth century.
Academic text (2007) -
The New English Bible offers a new translation to replace the words and expressions in the 1611 version, not because these words and expressions have changed, but precisely because they have not changed, and some readers prefer to see words and expressions characteristic of their time.
Academic text (2003) -
Translations current in English Bibles, on the contrary, still give preference to a static formula: "I am; that is who I am" (New English Bible, 1970).
Academic text (1994) -
In my Bible study group, we often refer to the New English Bible for its contemporary language.
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Many readers appreciate the clarity of the New English Bible when interpreting difficult passages.
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The New English Bible was first published in the mid-20th century, aiming to make the scripture accessible to modern readers.
How Old
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is transparently compositional: 'new' (recent) + 'English' (language) + 'Bible' (sacred text) directly signals a recent English edition or translation of the Bible. This adjectival + language + title pattern is common cross-linguistically and a B1 learner who knows the parts will readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
The name New English Bible comes from a simple idea: it was a new translation of the Bible into modern English, made by British writers and experts in the mid-1900s. So, the phrase means a modern English version of the Bible used for reading and study today.