New Translations

New Language.

As usual the Bible remained the best-selling book during the 1960s. While Protestant traditionalists continued to rely on the King James Version, others turned to new translations. In 1961 the New Testament was published in the New English Bible translation. Nearly seven million copies were sold by the end of the decade, when it was announced that the complete New English Version of the Bible would soon be available. In 1965 a Catholic version of the Revised Standard Version of the New Testament was published, and the following year the Jerusalem Bible, the first Roman Catholic Bible translated from the original documents into English, was published. In 1965 the Anchor Bible translation began with each book coming out on a regular basis.

Torah.

In 1963 a new translation of the Torah based on Masoretic (traditional Hebrew) text was published by the Jewish Publication Society of America. This translation...

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