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...scaled-down one-volume slipcased trade version costs a mere $65. (Oxford's cheapest King James is $12.50.) At the opposite end of the cultural scale. Scarf Press and David C. Cook have issued Bibles in comic-strip form. There are also vulgar paraphrases of the New Testament aimed at young "Jesus people," as well as curious "chronological Bibles," which purport to rearrange events in exact "historical" order. Reader 's Digest is at work on a condensed Bible. By 1982 it will cut the Old and New Testaments nearly in half, by trimming out repetitions and wordiness rather...
...unprecedented confusion of choices in standard full-length Bibles. Never have so many major new translations been on the market. An era of intense activity will be completed next year with the projected release of the Jewish Publication Society's Holy Scriptures (the Christian's Old Testament). Roman Catholics for the first time have excellent English translations from the original Greek and Hebrew languages: the official New American Bible (1970) and Britain's Jerusalem Bible...
...King James Bible (New Testament only, 1979, Thomas Nelson, $7.95). This version stays close to King James phrasing and drops archaic words. Sales figures are secret, but over 500,000 are in print. To help in promotion, Nelson, the biggest Bible publisher in the U.S. ($40 million in annual sales), signed up conservative stalwarts, including Jerry Falwell, as editors. There will be considerable commercial fanfare when the full Bible comes out next year. But like the old King, the New King is hobbled by its dependence on what even conservative experts agree are outdated manuscript sources...
Paul D. Hanson, Professor of Old Testament, is the new Bussey Professor of Divinity, filling a seat vacated when the previous faculty occupant died last year...
Marshner disagreed, saying. "The only way to square Christian ideals to a tolerance of abortion is to say that the New Testament is outdated." Pro-abortion legislators are "claiming [they know] better than the New Testament writers what God wanted...