Rainbow Good News Bible: (GNB)

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After this, the next change was a revision of the Good News Bible’s text to feature inclusive language. This means that where words in the original scriptures could mean either a specific gender or mixed groups of people, the translation would choose the side of wider relatability. Words like ‘people’ and ‘man’ can both be translations of the Greek word anthropoi( this is where we get words like Anthropology - the study of people). When faced with anthropoi, the Good News Bible would choose to say ‘ people’ whenever possible. This is the Bible that teachers have been looking for! Filled with vocabulary and supporting knowledge, this new edition of the Rainbow Bible will be indispensable in the teaching of RE. Notes explain biblical terms and the linking to other sections of the Bible is an inspired idea in aiding children to connect the stories. This will be our new go-to Bible in school.’ When her work came to the attention of Eugene Nida, the two of them arranged to meet. Ten minutes into that first meeting, Nida and Vallotton came to the agreement that she would provide illustrations for Good News For Modern Man .

The Good News Bible is a translation. Even though it features contemporary language, the text still adheres to being a functional translation of the Bible. But on the scale of Bible translations, it does sit closer to being a paraphrase than many other Bibles. Other Bible Translations This new edition of the Rainbow Good News Bible is an excellent resource for schools. Invitational and inclusive, it prompts children to explore the Big Story of the Bible with easy to understand explanations of context and language. It poses key questions linked to the biblical narrative and encourages the reader to engage in active and creative responses, making it an ideal resource to support teaching in Religious Education or for children to use when planning and leading Collective Worship.’ Before answering, it helps to know a couple more key terms used when discussing how accurate a Bible is. On the occasion that someone discusses Bible Translation accuracy, they will most likely draw a line in the sand between Bibles which are “word-for-word” and Bibles which are “thought-for-thought”. The King James Bible arose from the need for an English Bible amongst the general population of 17th century England. The NIV Bible was birthed from a need for a Bible that reflected the language of 1970s America. The Messagefollowed that cause as modern English had moved on a lot since then. All D ynamic Equivalence Bibles are thought-for-thought Bibles. Dynamic Equivalence is simply the more technical term for thought-for-thought.

After several months of interesting events, God’s judgment was “restrained” and the rain stopped ( Genesis 8:2), resulting in a rainbow that appeared in the sky. This new approach to translation has been embraced by a wide range of Bible translations since. These include the NLT, the Jerusalem Bible, the NIV Bible, the CSB, and dozens more. Dynamic Equivalence is how a huge number of Bibles are translated to this day, but was pioneered in the Good News Bible. As an example, this sentence you are currently reading would score at a Grade Nine on the readability test.

The Good News Translation was first published in 1976 by the American Bible Society in a "common language." The simple, everyday language makes it especially popular for children and those learning English. During this time, the books of Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Jonah, Ruth, Hosea, Amos, Micha and Exodus were also published. The] quality of a translation in which the message of the original text has been so transported into the receptor language that the response of the receptor is essentially like that of the original receptors."The need for the Good News Bible came from somewhere further afield than most other Bible translations. As a Dynamic Equivalence pioneer, one question that was frequently asked of the Good News Bible was ‘how accurate is it?’.

The Good News Bible reminds readers that above everything else the word of God is, ultimately, good news for all people. History of the Good News Bible This means that the Good News Bible is firmly and proudly a thought-for-thought Bible. Its goal is to always communicate what is meant by the Bible text in a way that readers today can immediately grasp. How Easy is the Good News Bible to Read? This modern version of the Bible in mid-20th century American English, prepared by a group of American biblical scholars, is also known as the Good News Bible. Taking advantage of the many archaeological and manuscript discoveries as well as the insights of linguistic and biblical scholarship since the 16th century it was designed to meet the needs of a world-wide explosion of evangelism in a secular world where English had become the dominant international language and a familiarity with traditional theological terminology could not be assumed. Its style avoids the looseness of paraphrase as it translates the deep structures of the text in its original languages. This pioneering version has set the pattern for innumerable new translations and revisions of the Bible in other languages as well as in English. Over 40 million copies of the Good News Biblehave been distributed world-wide since its first printing. Endorsements 'Accessible, informative, beautifully illustrated, but, most of all, fun. It's a Bible that will help your child understand and grow to love God’s big story!’ So, what is the true meaning of the rainbow? To answer that question, we must look beyond the children’s coloring books and really weird movies to the Bible — the only truly infallible, inspired, and authoritative source of truth that we have.It’s not only the name of the Good News Bible that has changed a lot. The text itself is available in a wide variety of editions and versions. Thought-for-thought Bibles operate under a different approach. They use a greater level of textual interpretation throughout their translation process. This includes taking in wider contexts and meanings as a guide to what the original text meant and how that text would appear in today’s language. Adding to this, the Good News Bible was embraced across a large portion of Christianity and continues to be the Bible of choice for many Churches across the UK. And not only the UK, but across the world. Its elegant line drawings and immediately-graspable text have remained fixed in the hearts of Christians for decades. To bring the ancient scriptures' core message to today's reader. How Accurate is the Good News Bible? The Bible children choose to read. Retaining the tried and trusted Bible text along with Annie Vallotton’s famous line drawings, this ebook edition contains the following helpful Table of contents for finding book, chapter and verse