REVISED NEW TESTAMENT TRANSLATION Since the introduction of the New American Bible in 1970, interest and participation in Bible study has increased rapidly. Awareness of this trend combined with the experience of its actual use (especially in oral
THE BIBLE NEEDS AN INTERPRETER The Bible is extremely difficult to understand, even by Bible scholors. It was written in languages long dead, and in the manner and idiom of the time. To interpret the Bible, it is not only necessary to understand
CRITERIA OF THE JEWISH CANON In the Several centuries before the coming of Christ, the Jews in Palestine re-examined and eliminated some of the books from the existing collection as not in harmony with the Law of Moses and as of doubtful
TEXTUAL DIVISION OF THE BIBLE The Bible as originally set down was not divided into chapter and verse as we know it today. Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury in the 13th Century, first divided the Bible text into Chapters. Santes Pagninus
ORIGIN OF THE BIBLE No Book in the history of the world has wielded as much influence On civilization as the Holy Bible. The Bible is unique in that it had God as its Author, while all other books were composed by human beings. It is indeed, the