List of English Bible Translations with Equivalence & Grade Reading Levels

How about the Phillips translation. Recently there has been discussion about it in this forum. Will it be included in your list?

Added Phillips plus several more translations to Logos Wiki page => Bible Translation Spectrum

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Added Phillips plus several more translations to Logos Wiki page

Also, what others did you add?

Logos Wiki diff of versions 1 & 2 shows four added to Word for Word

• 1997 WEB (Community Pricing needs more bids)
• 1961 Wuest (verbose expression of verbs)
• 1536 Tyndale
• 1535 Coverdale (First Complete English Bible)

Thought for Thought

• 1995 CEV (moved from Paraphrase to match Logos.com product page)
• 1959 EBR
• 1958 Phillips
• 1769 Harwood

Added Phillips plus several more translations to Logos Wiki page

I've always considered Phillips a paraphrase but you identified it as dynamic equivalent. What is your reasoning?

See http://www.bible-researcher.com/phillips.html

Wikipedia => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_New_Testament_in_Modern_English shows dynamic equivalence while The Living Bible shows paraphrase => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Living_Bible

Added many See Also links to Bible Translation Spectrum

 Bibles @ Logos.com
Bible-Researcher English
Bible Gateway Reading Levels
Reading Level of the KJV
Scott David: Spectrum Chart
Scott David: Bible Table
Jan Krohn: Source&Affiliation

Moved two English Versions to Paraphrase per Bible-Researcher

• 1958 Phillips
• 1769 Harwood

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While creating/updating Logos wiki page, pondered adding a column to Thought for Thought with three values for range:

• < = Closer to Literal
• > = Closer to Paraphrase
•   = Dynamic middle (space)

Perhaps NIV family of translations could be the middle of "Thought for Thought" dynamic range.

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At the wiki page, https://wiki.logos.com/Bible_Translation_Spectrum , why is the Modern English Version the only one listed as ecumenical. Wouldn't it be evangelical? Just curious.

MEV Preface includes: 

The original motive for creating this translation was to provide an update by military chaplains for the troops so they could understand the King James Version better. This project grew larger than anticipated in the search for academically qualified scholars when the chaplains “enlisted” the help of those who were not chaplains to get the job done, and when an unexpected publishing opportunity was offered. The target audience grew from the military to the entire English-speaking world. The translators began their work on June 2, 2005; they completed the New Testament on October 25, 2011, and the Old Testament on May 28, 2014.

The forty-seven American and English translators, being in great Christian unity and cooperation, who have a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ and who have formed an interdenominational translation committee, represent churches such as the Baptist Union of Great Britain, Charismatic Episcopal Church, Central Church of the Nazarene, Church of Christ, Church of England, Church of God, Elim Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, Free Methodist Church of North America, General Council of the Assemblies of God, International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, Methodist Church of Great Britain, Methodist Episcopal Church, Presbyterian Church of America, Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, Southern Baptist Convention, United Church of Christ, United Methodist Church, and the United Reformed Church. The translators represent a cross section of the English-speaking Church. So it is their prayer that the Modern English Version will please the entire English-speaking world.

As professors or graduates of some of the world’s leading colleges, seminaries, and universities, they represent institutions such as the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary, the College of William and Mary, Evangel University, Fuller Theological Seminary, Geneva College, Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Harvard University, Hebrew Union College, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Oklahoma Baptist University, Oral Roberts University, the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Pentecostal Theological Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Saint Leo University, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Stanford University, the University of Notre Dame, Vanguard University of Southern California, Westminster Seminary California, Westminster Theological Seminary, and Yale University. The translators are devoted to making a good translation better and ensuring that the Modern English Version is an accurate and responsible update of the King James Version.

 Modern English Version, Thinline Edition. (Lake Mary, FL: Passio, 2014), xi.

ecumenical (Greek, oikoumene, the inhabited world) 1. Of, relating to, or representing the whole church. 2. Promoting or tending toward worldwide Christian unity or cooperation.

Evangelical (noun) Member of a Bible-based Protestant church emphasizing personal salvation solely through being born again and through uncompromising commitment to the person of Jesus Christ. (adjective) 1. Of or relating to the gospel. 2. In the spirit of New Testament Christianity. 3. Belonging or relating to a Bible-based Protestant church emphasizing personal salvation solely through being born again and through uncompromising commitment to the person of Jesus Christ. 4. Emphasizing the doctrine of sin, repentance, grace, salvation, and saving faith. 5. Lutheran, as opposed to Reform. 6. Generally, Protestant, as opposed to Catholic.

 George Thomas Kurian, Nelson’s New Christian Dictionary: The Authoritative Resource on the Christian World (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2001).

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