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The Word: The Bible from 26 Translations

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I'm giving this Bible 4 stars, because I don't have it YET (I'M HOPING IT WILL TURN INTO 5 STARS, I'LL UPDATE REVIEW AFTER I RECEIVE AND REVIEW THE BOOK). I'm ordering it today--but as a few people have also inquired, I TOO wanted to KNOW what the 26 different translations were before I purchased this bible.

I've done the research for YOU and me and found which 26 versions this book uses (Hooray)! I wanted to list it here to help you use this review for future reference to discover EXACTLY what are the 26 translations found in this Bible and decide if this is what you're looking for or not. I'm looking forward to hiding God's Word in my heart with the help of this book.

Contains The King James Version in its entirety, plus the most significant insights from:

1.) The Bible: An American Translation (J. M. Powis Smith and Edgar J. Goodspeed)
University of Chicago Press

2.) The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments: An Improved Edition
American Baptist Publication Society

3.) The Amplified Bible
Zondervan Publishing House

4.) The American Standard Version

5.) The Bible in Basic English
Cambridge University Press and E. P. Dutton and Company

6.) The Modern Language Bible: The New Berkeley Version in Modern English
Zondervan Publishing House

7.) Praise-Songs of Israel: A Rendering of the Book of Psalms (John DeWitt)

8.) The Psalms for Today: A New Translation from the Hebrew into Current English (R. K. Harrison)
Zondervan Publishing House

9.) The Jerusalem Bible
Doubleday and Company, Inc.

11.) The Holy Scriptures According to the Masoretic Text: A New Translation
The Jewish Publication Society

12.) The Holy Bible: A Translation from the Latin Vulgate in the Light of the Hebrew and Greek Originals (Monsignor Ronald Knox)
Sheed and Ward, Inc. and Burns and Oates, Ltd.

13.) The Holy Bible from Ancient Eastern Manuscripts (George M. Lamsa)
A. J. Holman Company

14.) A New Translation of the Bible (James Moffatt)
Harper and Row Publishers, Inc. and Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd.

15.) The New American Bible
P. J. Kennedy and Sons

16.) The New English Bible
Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press

17.) The Psalms in the Book of Common Prayer of the Anglican Church

18.) Four Prophets: Amos, Hosea, First Isaiah, Micah (J. B. Phillips)
The Macmillan Company

19.) The Emphasized Bible: A New Translation (J. B. Rotherham)
Kregel Publications

20.) The Revised Standard Version
Division of Christian Education, National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America

21.) The Holy Bible: Revised Version
Cambridge University Press

22.) The Septuagint (Charles Thompson)

23.) A Translation of the Old Testament Scriptures from the Original Hebrew (Helen Spurrell)

24.) The Living Bible
Tyndale House Publishers

25.) The Torah: The Five Books of Moses
The Jewish Publication Society

26.) Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible (Robert Young)
Baker Book House

THE WORD ...The Bible from 26 Translations
Combines the effective power of 26 Bibles into one
Empowers you to accomplish in seconds-at a glance-what would have previously taken hours of research
Gives immediate, instant access to a Bible Library worth hundreds of dollars
Represents over 25 man-years of tedious biblical research from leading theologians and scholars, representing seminaries and universities throughout the United States, Canada, Scotland, and New Zealand (See Editorial Board)
At a single glance, you get the complete King James text (in boldface type) followed by the most significant insights from: The Amplified Bible, The American Standard Version, The Living Bible, The Revised Standard Version, The Jerusalem Bible, The New English Bible, The J.B. Phillips Translation and more! (See Translations above)
2608 pages
7-7/8" x 9-3/4"
only 1-1/2 inches thick!

HOPE THIS ADDITIONAL INFO HELPS YOU DECIDE RATHER OR NOT TO PURCHASE THIS BOOK!

I use this for at home bible reading and study. This is a great work! Quite amazing actually. The KJV text is in bold black type and numerous translations are in standard type positioned immediately beneath the corresponding line, phrase or KJV verse. The format is superb and fast reading. I looked at many, many other parallel and interlinear bibles before this one. This is the best of all. I STRONGLY recommend The Word.

"The Word" is the most helpfull Bible I have ever used in my 25 years of study. Let's face it, unless you are a Greek or Hebrew scholar, you may be missing out on the sense of a verse. You may wonder "Just what is God trying to say here?" This book offers up the best of all the translations together in a neat bouquet. Among them a sturdy sense of the meaning is gained with out a great deal of effort. Not only is fuller sense of each verse gained, but reading the verse over and over again in 4 or 5 translations plants the meaning deep in your heart and ministers to us in a way that a quick reading of one translation can not do.

Most of us routinely refer to only one or two translations a week in our personal devotions. We are missing out! This book is a great opportunity to deepen your understanding of God and his Word. The Bible, although dismissed by some as myth, is just as immediate and relevant to our life today as tomorrow's newspaper. Human nature has not changed and the gripping stories of disasters, dangers, battles, triumphs, passions, pride, true loves, sorrows, and salvation of people are still facinating. They warn us, teach us, inspire us and strengthen us. For we learn to awe an unfathomably great God, not a distance absentee landlord, but an infintely personal and loving God who sacrificed the best He had, His uniquely born son Jesus Christ, as a final answer to the world's one and only problem: sin.

"The Word", in it's rainbow of translations, brings a new vibrance to the Bible. So if your Bible is gathering dust on a shelf some where, try reading this presentaion of the scriptures and see if a new light is shed on such questions as: who God is, who you are, the meaning of life, what happens when we die, how can I make my marriage work, how do I raise children, etc. - all the BIG questions of life. God has answers, but it is up to us to make an effort to hear them. This special version makes it easier to listen.

The layout, format and presentation of the 26 translations is very ingenious. The different translations are presented without duplicate translations cluttering the page. However, I still need a reference Bible, concordance and index to get me back to familiar Scriptures that I can't remember where they are at the moment. But for verse by verse commentary (the Bible explaining itself), this Book is Divinely Inspired! It takes a while to remember which abbreviation (ASV, Knox, NAB, Sept, YLT, ABPS, etc.) is what translation. That keeps you turning back to the front for a while. But you will always have the King James Version as the standard Scripture of this Bible. The other 25 translations are presented under the King James Version in a verse by verse, sentence by sentence, thought by thought format to give you a breadth of the different colors and meanings of the various Hebrew and Greek words as translated by the different versions of the Bible.

I have been using this Bible for many years now. Found it extremely useful in my devotions & Bible study especially getting new insights on each particular passage under study. This Bible provides in one volume all the various insights needed for Bible Study; easily arranged in a very user-friendly format - verse-by-verse and phrase-by-phrase.

No need to buy many translations of the Bible for serious Bible study. All I need is just this one Bible for all my Bible study. Also, its easy to carry around in one volume during my overseas trips.

Truly, one of my best investment in studying the Bible. Highly recommended for both new & seasoned students of the Bible.

This Bible will be a GREAT enhancement to any Biblical Library. It DOES offer you clarification on meanings, and offers you interchangeable word usage. My only peeve - and it's very, very minute - is that it does not have a concordance or dictionary in the back. But, don't let that stop you from ordering and RECEIVING Gods' Word in more than one language!!! You WILL enjoy having this...

I must admit, that reading the Old/New Testaments is a very hard and often boring/tedious task to accomplish. (What? No one else has this problem? Sheesh.) While I maintain that the original King James Version is the most accurate of all translations based on the best and numerous extant ancient manuscripts, the King James English leaves me in the lurch as far as being understandable. Some passages are beautiful, but the archaic idioms, syntax, sentence structure and words give me no benefit in understanding the content and meaning of the verses. Enter "The Word" in 26 translations. While this sounds rather daunting, this version does a very smart and efficient thing. While it is true that there are 26 different translations, this edition only lists any significant differences from certain translations as compared to the King James version, which is used as the primary reading verse. So in reality, for each verse, you may have about three to five different readings underneath the King James verse. If something in the KJV seems foggy in meaning, you can immediately skip down underneath the verse to see the alternative translations. This brings much clarity and insight. The only "drawback" to this edition is it's realitivly large size. It isn't light or small by anymeans. However the understanding and insight gathered from this translation has more than made up for the relatively expensive price and oversized shape of the book. If the publishers ever produce a volume that is much smaller than this edition, I am sure that it would be a best seller. I found this book a great solution for the scripture reading blues.

The Word the Bible from 26 translations is the way to go!
You can't make any mistakes when expressing a clear, complete and concise explanation of the Word of God.
This Bible renewed my desire to study the Word of God and regenerated a joy in delivering a message to the people of God in order to make their walk with God more understandable.
I came to this sight specifically to order a copy for my new pastor whom is one of the most studious and articulate man of God I have ran across in a long time. Enjoy!

This Bible contains KJV in its entirety with different renderings from other versions for each verse. With all the different, sometime conflicting renderings, are they all equally valid? If not, how is a reader supposed to tell which one is? Most readers simply ignore these questions. This could lead them to false understanding of God's word because they simply pick the translations they like or the ones that fit their current needs.

Sometimes the biggest difference between two translations are not the wording, but the sentence structures. Those differences are for the most part lost in this book.

Some translations included in this book are still somewhat valuable, such as American Standard Bible and New English Bible. Most are very outdated. Many more recent translations have corrected the errors in those old versions. Readers will be far better off to buy a parallel bible featuring more recent translations. Two of the best are Essential Evangelical Parallel Bible and Hendrickson Parallel Bible, each features four translations. Evangelical Parallel New Testament features eight translations of the New Testament. After comparing different versions, it is essential to consult other reference books and other believers in order to correctly understand the Bible. Most importantly, ask God to give you understanding.

Those who use computers can also download free softwares such as esword or sword to compare more versions of the English translations of the Bible. They both include some useful Bible reference works.

The Word: The Bible in 26 Translations (hereafter known as The Word) is a Bible that is unlike other parallel Bibles. It contains the complete the complete KJV text along with clauses from 25 other versions of the Bible. The publishers claim this approach is different from normal parallel bibles, so that text is not repeated. While this sounds good, this approach puts the publisher into the place of textual critic and denies the reader the context of the other 25 versions in order to make a judgment on the passages meaning. Another problem I have with The Word is that the translations it uses is very dated. The most current translation available is the Amplified Bible, which was published in the early 60's. That means you won't find the proliferation of versions that have have been released since that time in this volume. Overall, The Word is a good noble effort. Sadly, it falls flat. Instead, I would get a regular parallel bible instead of this.