The New Living Translation was translated from the ancient texts by 90 leading Bible scholars. It employs clear and natural English. It often makes implicit information explicit (e.g. 'disreputable ...

But Freedman says something really important in his book: living in a more tolerant world doesn’t lessen the emotional attachment that people have to a particular translation. For many people, the ...

For America's first 200 years – well into the 1850s – the primary if not only textbook in grammar schools was the Bible.