New Testament: World English Bible

By World Outreach Ministries and R.H. Ruggles

The World English Bible is an update of the American Standard Version (ASV) of the Bible, published in 1901. The archaic words and word forms have been updated to contemporary equivalents. The World English Bible New Testament was edited to conform to the Majority Text reconstruction of the original Greek manuscripts, thus taking advantage of the superior access to manuscripts that we have now compared to when the ASV was translated.What is different about the World English Bible?The style of the World English Bible, while fairly literally translated, is in informal, spoken English. Its language is not formal, just as the original Greek of the New Testament was not formal. The WEB uses contractions rather freely.The World English Bible doesn't capitalize pronouns pertaining to God. The original manuscripts made no such distinction. The original Greek New Testament manuscripts were written in all upper case letters.In places where lack of clarity in the original manuscripts has led to multiple possible readings, significant variants are listed in footnotes. The reading that in our prayerful judgment is best is in the main text. Overall, the World English Bible is similar to several other good contemporary English translations of the Holy Bible. The message of Salvation through Jesus Christ is still the same. The point of this translation was not to be very different (except for legal status), but to update the ASV for readability while retaining or improving the accuracy of that well-respected translation and retaining the public domain status of the ASV.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1502572729
• ISBN13: 9781502572721
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 458 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.5"