Successor to the REB?

I know there probably isn't one but thought I'd ask here.

One thing I'm doing this year is looking at updated versions of different translations. In the last 15 years, we've seen revisions of the NIV, NASB, and NRSV, among others. I've always been a bit fascinated with the idiosyncratic NEB (1970), and this year I'm reading its update, the REB, which came out in 1989. In this era of modern translations, 36 years is quite a long time without some sort of update. So, I was wondering, is there an updated version of the REB? Or, is there a plan for it? I know it didn't catch on that well, so is there at least any recent translation that could be considered its spiritual heir? I'm curious. I can't find anything through a (cursory) web search.

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Francis

I don't use the REB. Is there reason to think, aside from the time elapsed since its publication, that it particularly needs an update?

DMB

I wonder if the CEB took some air out of the sails of an REB update.

Theophan Dort

I once really loved the NEB, the predecessor of the REB. There were passages that I found as majestic and beautiful as the KJV but in modern English! I really loved some aspects of it, but I also found a few passages rather clunky, and a few so very idiomatically British that this American could hardly understand them (e.g., "a rod in pickle").

When the REB came out, I was very hopeful, expecting it to be like the NEB but with its deficiencies corrected. I was terribly disappointed to find that it seemed instead like a wholly different translation, and one I didn't particularly like. It didn't have the things I hated, but it also didn't have anything I particularly loved.

If others perceived them similarly, maybe there was a lot of interest in an "improved" version of the appealing but flawed NEB, but that very few people really liked the REB very well, so why would anyone be interested in an updated version of a translation hardly anyone seems to have liked very well?

I still read the NEB once in a while, but I almost never get out my REB.

Sean

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1376326#Comment_1376326

That's basically how I feel about it. The NEB was unique (not necessarily a good thing in a Bible translation). The REB lost soem of its quirks as well as some its charm. I've just been wondering if there is any work towards doing something with this legacy. An update of the NEB like the NLT did for The Living Bible could be a great thing—that's what the REB should have been but didn't quite achieve.