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An economy, plain cover paperback edition of the Good News Bible New Testament. The full text of the Good News Bible New Testament in a new, budget edition to enable bulk purchase by schools and churches.
While this does gain in clarity over traditional translations, it attempts to transform all the imagery into literal meanings, which destroys much of the beauty of the text and also imposes particular interpretations of the more metaphorical expressions. ( )
The "Today's English" is, of course, sadly dated now. But I find this version interesting, like many another off-beat version. Besides, in 1966 I was 17, and it didn't sound that strange then. ( )
An economy, plain cover paperback edition of the Good News Bible New Testament. The full text of the Good News Bible New Testament in a new, budget edition to enable bulk purchase by schools and churches.
However, after accepting Christ and being 'born again' 20 years later, I prefer the King James Bible for reading.
Nothing wrong with this book, if you just want a brief overview of the New Testament, but it's sort of like a Readers' Digest of Bibles. ( )