BIBLE EDITIONS   separately listed

Name

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brief attributes and relative usefulness
King James Version KJV authorized version; historic, liturgical, poetic
Revised Standard Version RSV scholarly close-translation; study; liturgical, updated KJV
New Revised Standard Version NRSV liturgical, more inclusive; scholarly freer-translation; 
Jerusalem & New Jerusalem Bible JB NJB modern Catholic, poetic, liturgical, scholarly
New International Version NIV evangelical; scholarly; study; liturgical
Today's English Version TEV common language, paraphrastic; study
Douay Version DV older Catholic, liturgical (the Roman KJV)
New English NEB modern British, poetic, liturgical, scholarly
Jewish Publication Society JPS older "Jewish KJV" & modern scholarly, poetic versions
Parallel Versions PAR various versions set in corresponding columns/pages
     

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King James Version

 The Holy Bible: an exact reprint in roman type, page for page of the authorized version published in the year 1611 / with an introduction by Alfred W. Pollard. Oxford: University Press; New York, 1911.  
REF BS185 1611 O8

 The Holy Bible / as printed by Robert Aitken and approved & recommended by the Congress of the United States of America in 1782. New York: Arno Press, 1968.  
REF BS185 1782 N48
 
 The Annotated paragraph Bible: containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the Authorized version arranged in paragraphs and parallelisms with explanatory notes, prefaces to the several books, and an entirely new selection of references to parallel and illustrative passages. London: The Religious tract society, 1867.  
REF BS185 1867 L6 

 The annotated paragraph Bible: containing the Old and New Testaments according to the authorized version, arranged in paragraphs and parallelisms, with explanatory notes, prefaces to the several books, and an entirely new selection of references to parallel and illustrative passages. New York: Sheldon & Co., [1868?]  
REF BS185 1868 N4 

 The Large-print paragraph Bible in separate books. London: S. Bagster, [189-?]  
REF BS185 1890 L6 
 
 The New chain-reference Bible: containing Thompson's original and complete system of Bible study, including chain references, text cyclopedia, analyses of books, outline studies of characters, and unique charts, to which has been added a new and valuable series of pictorial maps together with other features: self pronouncing text / compiled and edited by Frank Charles Thompson. Indianapolis, Ind.: Kirkbride Bible Co., c1934.
REF BS185 1934 I5
 
The New analytical Bible and dictionary of the Bible: Authorized version: with the addition in many instances, in brackets, of the more correct renderings of the American revised version, copyright 1929 by the International council of religious education, and used by permission. Chicago: John A. Dickson publishing company, c1938  
REF BS185 1938 C52
A system of helps comprising textual revision, a dictionary of the Bible, introductions to each book, a chart outline of each book of the Bible, analysis of the entire Bible, treatment of the outstanding facts of each book, contemporaneous history, a specially arranged harmony of the Gospels, the teachings of Jesus in alphabetical order, a comprehensive index of all the subjects, of all the helps, and many other features of exceptional character and excellence to facilitate the study and better understanding of the Scriptures.
 
The Westminster study edition of the Holy Bible: containing the Old and New Testaments in the authorized (King James) version . Philadelphia: Westminster Press, c1948.
REF BS185 1948 P5
 
 The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: King James version with pictures. New York: American Bible Society, [c1961] 
REF BS185 1961 N4
 
 The Holy Bible: The Authorized or King James version of 1611 now reprinted with the Apocrypha. London: Nonesuch Press; New York: Random House, 1963.
REF BS185 1963 L6
 Includes reproductions of 105 of the sixteenth-century woodcuts of Bernard Salomon
 
Bridges, Ronald. The Bible word book: concerning obsolete or archaic words in the King James Version of the Bible / by Ronald Bridges and Luther A. Weigle. New York: Nelson, c1960.
REF BS186 B7 
   
Elliott, Melvin E. The Language of the King James Bible: a glossary explaining its words and expressions / Melvin E. Elliott. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1967.
REF BS186 E4 
 
The Chronological Bible / edited by Edward Reese ; dates by Frank R. Klassen  Nashville, Tenn. : E. E. Gaddy & Associates, c1977.
REF BS 185 1977 .N36
 
The original African heritage study Bible : King James Version : with special annotations relative to the African/Edenic perspective. Felder, Cain Hope.  Nashville [Tenn.] : J.C Winston, c1993.
REF BS185 1993 .N374 1993
 

 

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Douay Version
 
The New American Bible / translated from the original languages with critical use of all the ancient sources by members of the Catholic Biblical Association of America. New York: P. J. Kenedy, 1970. 
REF BS192.3.A1 1970 .N48
 "Sponsored by the Bishops' Committee of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine." 
 
New Catholic edition of the Holy Bible: the Old Testament, Confraternity-Douay version, with the new Confraternity of Christian Doctrine translation of the first eight books, and a new translation of the Book of Psalms from the new Latin version approved by Pope Pius XII; and the New Testament, Confraternity edition, a revision of the Challoner-Rheims version / edited by Catholic scholars under the patronage of the Episcopal Committee of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine.
REF BS180 1954  

 

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New International Version
 
The full life study Bible, New International Version, the New Testament / general editor, Donald C. Stamps; associate editor, J. Wesley Adams. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Bible Publishers, c1990. 
REF BS2095 .N37 1990
  Includes index. 
 
Dios llega al hombre : El Nuevo Testamento de Nuestro Señor Jesucristo  [Asunción] Sociedades Bíblicas en América Latina [1966] 
REF BS299 1966 .P6
includes maps 
   
NRSV-NIV parallel New Testament in Greek and English / with interlinear translation by Alfred Marshall. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, c1990. 
REF BS1965.5 1990
  Greek text with interlinear English translations. 
 
Serendipity Bible for groups: New International Version. Littleton, Colo.: Serendipity House, 1989. 
REF BS195 .N375 1989 
"Scripture taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version, c1984."Questions for study groups are parallel with the text. Includes indexes. Grand Rapids, Mich.]: Zondervan, 1989. 
 
The NIV harmony of the Gospels: with explanations and essays, using the text of the New International Version: a revised edition of the John Broadus and A.T. Robertson Harmony of the Gospels / Robert L. Thomas, editor and Stanley N. Gundry, associate editor. San Francisco: Harper & Row, c1988. 
REF BS2553 .N48 1988
  Includes bibliographies and index. 
 
The New Testament, New International version. New York, N.Y.: Paulist Press, c1986
REF BS2095 .N37 1986b
 
Oxford NIV Scofield study bible: New International Version, New Scofield study system with introductions, annotations, and subject chain references / editor, C. I. Scofield; editorial revision committee, 1967:  E. Schuyler English, chairman; consultants, New International Version edition, 1984:  Clarence E. Mason, Jr., W. Sherrill Babb, Paul S. Karlen. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. 
REF BS195 .N37 1984
 Includes indexes. Concordance:  p. 1341-1575.     
 
A Harmony of the words and works of Jesus Christ: from the New International version / J. Dwight Pentecost. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Pub. House, c1981. 
REF BS2560 .P29
 
The Holy Bible, New international version: containing the Old Testament and the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Bible Publishers, c1978. 
REF BS195 .I57 1978
  
The Holy Bible; New international version. The New Testament. Grand Rapids, MI.: Zondervan, c1973. 
REF BS2095 .I57 1973 
 
 

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New Revised Standard Version
   
The new interpreter's study Bible : New Revised Standard Version with the Apocrypha / [Walter Harrelson, general editor]. Nashville : Abingdon Press, c2003.
REF BS191.5 .A1 2003 N49 2003
extensive notes and brief articles by highly reputable modern scholars

The access Bible: New Revised Standard Version, with the apocryphal/deuterocanonical books / Gail R. O'Day, David Peterson, general editors.
REF BS191.5.A1 1999 .N49 
 Includes index to maps. 
 
The Holy Bible: containing the Old and New Testaments. Oxford [England]: Oxford University, 1999. 
REF BS191.5.A1 1995 .O94
  Large print ed.
 
The spiritual formation Bible: growing in intimacy with God through Scripture: New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) / [general editor, Timothy Jones]. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Pub. House, c1999. 
REF BS191.2.A1 1999 G73
 Includes bibliographical references (p. [1664]-1676).Gift given in honor of Julie Johnson.  
 
The New Testament and Psalms: an inclusive version / editors, Victor Roland Gold ... [et al.] New York: Oxford University Press, c1995. 
REF BS2091.5.A1 1995 .N4
  "The New Testament and Psalms: an inclusive version is an adaptation using the New Revised Standard Version Bible" 
 
The Cambridge annotated study Bible: New Revised Standard Version / notes and references by Howard Clark Kee.  Cambridge [England]; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 
REF BS191.5.A1 1993 C36
  Includes index. United Bible Societies  
 
The HarperCollins study Bible: New Revised Standard Version, with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books / general editor, Wayne A. Meeks; associate editors, Jouette M. Bassler ... [et al.]; with the Society of Biblical literature. New York, NY: HarperCollins, c1993. 
REF BS191.5.A1 1993 .C35
  Includes index to color maps. 
 
The new Oxford annotated Bible with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books: New revised standard version / edited by Bruce M. Metzger, Roland E. Murphy; contributors, Bernhard W. Anderson ... [et al.]. New York: Oxford University Press, c1991. 
REF BS195.N4 1991 .N43
  Spine title:  The new Oxford annotated Bible with the Apocrypha.Includes indexes.
 
The Holy Bible: containing the Old and New Testaments: New Revised Standard Version. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, c1990. 
REF BS191.5 .A1 1990 
  Study helps--concordance--map index.
 
The Holy Bible: containing the Old and New Testaments; New revised standard version. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, c1989. 
REF BS191.5 .A1 1989 T4  
  Includes "Events in biblical chronology" chart.  
NRSV-NIV parallel New Testament in Greek and English / with interlinear translation by Alfred Marshall. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, c1990. 
REF BS1965.5 1990
  Greek text with interlinear English translations. 
 
  

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Revised Standard Version
 
Harper study Bible : The Holy Bible. Revised Standard version. New York : Harper & Row, c1964.
 REF BS191.A1 1964 .N4
 introductions, annotations, topical headings, marginal references, and index prepared and edited by Harold Lindsell. Notes: "Concordance to the Holy Bible, revised standard version":  
 
The Holy Bible : Revised standard version, containing the Old and New Testaments.Philadelphia : A. J. Holman Co., c1962. 
 REF  BS191.A1 1962 .P5
 Cover title: Holman study Bible. "Concise concordance to the Revised standard version of the Holy Bible"
 
The Cross-reference Bible : American standard version / Harold E. Monser, editor-in-chief. Author: Bible. Imprint: Grand Rapids : Baker Book House, 1959. 
REF BS190.A1 1959 .G7
 Includes topical analysis and cross references with variorum readings and renderings."  Originally printed in 1910 by the Cross-reference Bible Company ." 
 
The Apocrypha : c Revised standard version of the Old Testament /   New York : Nelson, c1957. 
REF BS1692 1957
translated from the Greek and Latin tongues, being the version set forth A.D. 1611, rev. A.D. 1894, compared with the most ancient authorities and rev. A.D. 1957.

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Jerusalem & New Jerusalem Bible

 

The new Jerusalem Bible: standard edition. New York: Doubleday, c1999.
REF BS195 .J4 1999   
 
The New Jerusalem Bible. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, c1985.  
REF BS195 .J4 1985
 
The Jerusalem Bible / general editor:  Alexander Jones; principal collaborators in translation and literary revision:  Joseph Leo Alston ... [et al.] Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, c1966.
REF BS195 .J4 1966
 
La Bible de Jérusalem: la Sainte Bible / traduite en français sous la direction de l'École biblique de Jérusalem. Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1974. 
REF BS230 1974   
 
La Sainte Bible : qui comprend l'Ancien et le Nouveau Testament / traduits d'après sur les textes originaux hébreu et grec par Louis Segond. Author: Bible. Imprint: Paris : Alliance Biblique Française, 1961, 1910.   
REF BS230 1961 .S4 
"Le texte de cette Bible est la reproduction du texte de la Bible Segond à parallèles parue en 1910."
 
La Sainte Bible / traduite en francais sous la direction de l'École biblique de Jérusalem. Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1956, c1955. 
REF BS230 1955 
  "Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée"--Copyright application.
   

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Today's English Version
 
Good news Bible: the Bible in Today's English version. New York: American Bible Society, 1976. 
REF BS195 .T63 1976
"The basic text for the Old Testament is the Masoretic text printed in Biblia Hebraica (3rd edition, 1937) ... for the New Testament is the Greek New Testament published by the United Bible Societies (3rd edition, 1975)."
 
Kei hsien tai jen ti fu yin: Hsin yüeh ch‘üan shu hsien tai Chung wen i pen. Kowloon: Hong Kong Bible Society, 1979. 
REF BS315 .C551 1979
Includes index. Title on verso of t.p.:  Good news for modern man:  the New Testament in today's Chinese version.  
 
Good news for modern man: the New Testament in Today's English version. New York: American Bible Society, c1966. 
REF BS2095 .T56 1966
First published in 1966 as:  Today's English version of the New Testament. A translation made by the American Bible Society. On cover:  Dwight D. Eisenhower memorial edition.

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New English Bible

The New English Bible, with the Apocrypha / Samuel Sandmel, general editor ; M. Jack Suggs, New Testament editor ; Arnold J. Tkacik, Apocrypha editor. New York : Oxford University Press, 1976. 
REF BS192.A1 1976 .N48 
Prepared under the authority of the Joint Committee on the New Translation of the Bible.  
 
The New English Bible with the Apocrypha. New York : Oxford University Press, 1971. 
REF BS192.A1 1971 .N48
"The publication of the books of the Apocrypha ... prepared under the auspices of the Joint Committee on the New Translation of the Bible." "The New Testament. First edition 1961. Second edition 1970. The Old Testament and Apocrypha. First published 1970." 
 
The New English Bible: the Old Testament. London : Oxford U.P. : Cambridge U.P., 1970. 
REF BS892.A1 1970 .L62 
Translated under the supervision of the Joint Committee on the New Translation of the Bible.  
 
The New English Bible: the Apocrypha. London : Oxford U.P. : Cambridge U.P., 1970. 
REF BS2092.A1 1970 .L62
Translated under the supervision of the Joint Committee on the New Translation of the Bible.  
 
The New English Bible : New Testament. [London] : Oxford University Press : Cambridge University Press, 1961. 
REF BS2092.A1 1961 .L62
Translated under the supervision of the Joint Committee on the New Translation of the Bible.   
   

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Jewish Publication Society

The Jewish study Bible : Jewish Publication Society Tanakh translation / Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler, editors ; Michael Fishbane, consulting editor. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
REF BS895 .J4 2004

[Tanakh] = JPS Hebrew-English Tanakh : the traditional Hebrew text and the new JPS translation. Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 1999.
REF BS895 .J4 1999
"Hebrew text based on Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia"--T.p. verso.Includes bibliographical references.
 
Tanakh = [Tanakh] : the new JPS translation according to the traditional Hebrew text.  Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, c1985.
REF BS895 .J4 1985
Title facing t.p.: Torah, Nevi'im, Kethuvim = Torah, Nevi’im, Ketuvim. 
 
[Sefer Torah, Nevi’im u-Khetuvim(romanized form)]. New York : Hebrew Publishing Company, [1916/17] 
REF BS1223 1963 
Reprint. Title on spine: Torah, Nevi'im u-Khetuvim (in Hebrew characters)  
 
Torah Nebi’im Kethubim [Romanized title] = The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic text. Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America, 1955.   2 Volumes
REF BS715 1955 .H6 
Hebrew and English. 
 
[Torah Nevi’im u-Khetuvim(romanized form)] : The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic text, a new translation. Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America, 5713-1953, c1917. 
REF BS895 .J48 1917  

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Parallel Versions
 
The parallel apocrypha: Greek text, King James Version, Douay Old Testament, the Holy Bible by Ronald Knox, Today's English Version, New Revised Standard Version, New American Bible, New Jerusalem Bible / John R. Kohlenberger III, general editor. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
REF BS1692 1997 
  Includes bibliographical references.The contents and character of the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books / Judith L. Kovacs -- A view from history: the place of the Apocrypha in the Jewish community / Sarah J. Tanzer -- The Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books: an Orthodox view / Demetrios J. Constantelos -- The Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books: a Catholic view / John J. Collins -- The Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books: an Anglican/Episcopalian view / Mary Chilton Callaway -- The Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books: a Protestant view / Walter J. Harrelson -- The Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books: an evangelical view / D. A. Carson -- The texts and translations of the parallel Apocrypha / John R. Kohlenberger III.
 
The precise parallel New Testament: Greek text, King James Version, Rheims New Testament, Amplified Bible, New International Version, New Revised Standard Version, New American Bible, New American Standard Bible / John R. Kohlenberger III, general editor. New York: Oxford University Press, c1995.
REF BS2025 1995 .K6
Includes bibliographical references
 
The complete parallel Bible: containing the Old and New Testaments with the Aprocryphal/Deuterocanonical books: New Revised Standard Version, Revised English Bible, New American Bible, New Jerusalem Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, c1993. 
REF BS125 .B5 1993
  Each pair of facing pages contains the four versions in four parallel columns.  
 
NRSV-NIV parallel New Testament in Greek and English / with interlinear translation by Alfred Marshall. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, c1990. 
REF BS1965.5 1990
  Greek text with interlinear English translations. 
 
The Six version parallel New Testament: King James version, Living Bible, Revised Standard version, New English Bible, Phillips Modern English, Jerusalem Bible. Carol Stream, IL: Creation House, 1974.
REF BS2025 1974 .C3
 
The Four translation New Testament : [Chicago, Moody Press, 1966] 
                                    King James ; 
                                    New American standard Bible ; 
                                    Williams, in the language of the people ; 
                                    Beck, in the language of today.  
REF : BS2025 1966 .M6
 
The English hexapla : exhibiting the six important English translations of the New Testament scriptures ...   the original Greek text after Scholz, with the various readings of the textus receptus and the principal Constantinopolitan and Alexandrine manuscripts, and a complete collation of Scholz's text with Griesbach's edition of M.DCCC.V, preceded by an historical account of the English translations.  New York : AMS Press, 1975.
REF : BS2025 1975 .S36
 Includes the Wycliffe, Tyndale, Cranmer, Genevan, Anglo-Rhemish, and Authorized English versions.Reprint of the 1841 ed. published by S. Bagster, London. 
 
The Six version parallel New Testament : King James version, Living Bible, Revised Standard version, New English Bible, Phillips Modern English, Jerusalem Bible.  Carol Stream, IL : Creation House, 1974. 
REF  BS2025 1974 .C3
 
The New Testament octapla : eight English versions of the New Testament in the Tyndale-King James tradition / edited by Luther A. Weigle.  New York : T. Nelson, [1962] 
REF  BS2025 1962 .W4
 
The New Testament from 26 translations / general editor: Curtis Vaughan.  Grand Rapids : Zondervan, c1967. 
REF  BS2025 1967 .V3

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Contemporary English Version

Holy Bible: The AFrican American Jubilee Edition
REF BS 195 .c66 1999
". . . to bridge the teachings of the Bible with the realities of African American day-to-day living. . . . designed to encourage readers, especially those of this contemporary generation, to read and, in some instances, to re-read the Bible in light of their own cultural and social locations."

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