REB
What is the status of the Revised English Bible?
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That's exactly the question I want to ask. Perhaps there are not enough people who have read the REB to recommend it. I wonder if it's that most Logos users are Americans. I know for my part, I never saw the REB in America, except in a dusty section of a specialty used book shop (very dusty corner). I really hope they consider negotiating for it. Some people think it is the best translation in terms of literary value among modern versions.
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Kendall Sholtess said:
I know for my part, I never saw the REB in America, except in a dusty section of a specialty used book shop (very dusty corner)
And here I thought I was in America - My primary parallel Bible and one study Bible are REB. The original EB is what we used in college. Yes, there are several requests for it but is the publisher interested?
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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I was just talking about myself. I meant no offense. I am American anyway, from the Midwest. [:)]
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I am lucky enough to have it on a competitors program (no translation notes) but at least I have access to it on my computer and iphone. I have used the New English Bible and I think some people got turned off with it because it was fairly radical in some respects. THE REB kept the best of the NEB but took a more conservative bent with the textual judgements. It certainly isn;t as gender inclusive as I would like but I find it a very refreshing translation for those unfamiliar with it I have taken some of the most popular texts to give people a feeling for the translation. With familiar texts
Psa. 23:0 (REB) ¶ [A psalm: for David]
Psa. 23:1 (REB) The Lord is my shepherd; I lack for nothing.
Psa. 23:2 (REB) He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me to water where I may rest;
Psa. 23:3 (REB) he revives my spirit; for his name’s sake he guides me in the right paths.
Psa. 23:4 (REB) Even were I to walk through a valley of deepest darkness I should fear no harm, for you are with me; your shepherd’s staff and crook afford me comfort.
Psa. 23:5 (REB) You spread a table for me in the presence of my enemies; you have richly anointed my head with oil, and my cup brims over.
Psa. 23:6 (REB) Goodness and love unfailing will follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord throughout the years to come.
1Cor. 13:1 (REB) ¶ I may speak in tongues of men or of angels, but if I have no love, I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
1Cor. 13:2 (REB) I may have the gift of prophecy and the knowledge of every hidden truth; I may have faith enough to move mountains; but if I have no love, I am nothing.
1Cor. 13:3 (REB) I may give all I possess to the needy, I may give my body to be burnt, but if I have no love, I gain nothing by it.
1Cor. 13:4 (REB) ¶ Love is patient and kind. Love envies no one, is never boastful, never conceited,
1Cor. 13:5 (REB) never rude; love is never selfish, never quick to take offence. Love keeps no score of wrongs,
1Cor. 13:6 (REB) takes no pleasure in the sins of others, but delights in the truth.
1Cor. 13:7 (REB) There is nothing love cannot face; there is no limit to its faith, its hope, its endurance.
1Cor. 13:8 (REB) ¶ Love will never come to an end. Prophecies will cease; tongues of ecstasy will fall silent; knowledge will vanish.
1Cor. 13:9 (REB) For our knowledge and our prophecy alike are partial,
1Cor. 13:10 (REB) and the partial vanishes when wholeness comes.
1Cor. 13:11 (REB) When I was a child I spoke like a child, thought like a child, reasoned like a child; but when I grew up I finished with childish things.
1Cor. 13:12 (REB) At present we see only puzzling reflections in a mirror, but one day we shall see face to face. My knowledge now is partial; then it will be whole, like God’s knowledge of me.
1Cor. 13:13 (REB) There are three things that last for ever: faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of the three is love.
John 14:1 (REB) ¶ ‘Set your troubled hearts at rest. Trust in God always; trust also in me.
John 14:2 (REB) There are many dwelling-places in my Father’s house; if it were not so I should have told you; for I am going to prepare a place for you.
John 14:3 (REB) And if I go and prepare a place for you, I shall come again and take you to myself, so that where I am you may be also;
John 14:4 (REB) and you know the way I am taking.’
John 14:5 (REB) Thomas said, ‘Lord, we do not know where you are going, so how can we know the way?’
John 14:6 (REB) Jesus replied, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except by me.
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Kendall Sholtess said:
. I am American anyway, from the Midwest.
I went to college in the Midwest (Beloit, Wisconsin) but as a true West Coaster I'm not sure that land between the two coasts is American? Seriously, I've discovered that the Community Bible seems to be popular only on the West Coast. I wouldn't be surprised if there were a geographical component to the most familiar translations.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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you do have a tendency to ramble
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Thanks for posting these! It is truly a lovely translation. I am looking forward to a hard copy I ordered in the mail. It's clear that the translators, if they erred, did so on the side of pleasing poetics. [:)]
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MJ. Smith said:
I wouldn't be surprised if there were a geographical component to the most familiar translations.
From what I have experienced, I suspect that you are correct in this assessment MJ.
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MJ. Smith said:
I wouldn't be surprised if there were a geographical component to the most familiar translations.
From what I have experienced, I suspect that you are correct in this assessment MJ.
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I apparently lost or sold or gave away my REB years ago, because I couldn't find it when I went looking for it. I believe Dr. Carl Conrad on B-Greek said it was one of his favorites.
But I was fortunate to find one (w/Apocrypha) recently in new condition (other than the owner's name being written in it) for $5 at a used bookstore. While I agree that it could be more gender inclusive, and probably would be if it were published today, it's a very nice translation to have, and I'd like it in Logos.
Optimistically Egalitarian (Galatians 3:28)
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