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The translation project originally started as an attempt to provide a digital version of a modern English translation over the Internet and on CD-ROM without cost for the user. [2] Many of those involved in the project's initial discussions eventually became part of the translation team.
The World English Bible (WEB) is an English translation of the Bible freely shared online. [5] The translation work began in 1994 [ 4 ] and was deemed complete in 2020. [ 2 ] Created by Michael Paul Johnson with help from volunteers, [ 1 ] [ 6 ] the WEB is an updated revision of the American Standard Version from 1901.
The Common English Bible (CEB) is an English translation of the Bible whose language is intended to be at a comfortable reading level for the majority of English readers. [2] The translation, sponsored by an alliance of American mainline Protestant denomination publishers, was begun in late 2008 and was finished in 2011. [ 3 ]
Despite widespread criticism due to being a paraphrase rather than a translation, the popularity of The Living Bible created a demand for a new approach to translating the Bible into contemporary English called dynamic equivalence, which attempts to preserve the meaning of the original text in a readable way.
The 1537 folio edition carried the royal licence and was therefore the first officially approved Bible translation in English. The Psalter from the Coverdale Bible was included in the Great Bible of 1540 and the Anglican Book of Common Prayer beginning in 1662, and in all editions of the U.S. Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer until 1979.
The Geneva Bible is one of the most historically significant translations of the Bible into English, preceding the Douay Rheims Bible by 22 years, and the King James Version by 51 years. [1] It was the primary Bible of 16th-century English Protestantism and was used by William Shakespeare , [ 2 ] Oliver Cromwell , John Knox , John Donne and others.
The oldest narrative is that John Wycliffe, as the "Morning Star of the Reformation", and his household created the first translation of the Bible into English, with a view of making it available to laymen and to break the power of the church, with copies primarily circulating among Latin-illiterate Lollards.
[1] The customary answer to this debate was to ask religious authorities to examine the translation and cross-check and compare different translations with contemporary Castilian, but that in turn created a debate about the qualifications of the religious authority itself to properly translate from the original sources. One of the answers to ...