In the year that the KJV turns 400 the Common English Bible will be published.
You can read all about those behind its production and publishing at the website.
It seems that the less conservative neighborhood of the US church want a translation that won’t have them paying royalties to Rupert Murdoch or conservative evangelicals when they use it.
With the NIV and its revisions dominant, and the ESV and HCSB receiving support from sections of the conservative evangelical movement, I’m not certain of the level of support it will receive on this side of the Pacific.
Anyway, here’s a promotional video.
Apparently one of the necessities of a modern translation is that it has to, like, sound the same as I do, you know.
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