26 Translations
New Testament and Old Testament Books of
Poetry
The first
experience I had with this Bible resource occurred during a
time of group prayer. One group member began to pray out of
her copy of
26 Translations.
It
moved me deeply. Soon after, she blessed me with my own
copies and I have kept them close at hand ever since.
Do you ever have those times when you just feel stuck for
meaning or understanding over a verse? Often 26
Translations will break you out of your stuck-ness in
record time.
Purpose
of
26 Translations
Those scholars
who assemble
26 Translations did so to help
open up the richness of scripture to us. In the
introduction the general editor, Curtis Vaughan, states
that he and his associates hold a long standing belief that
one translation opens and illustrates another translation.
That certainly is my experience with these two volumes.
Why
Such Differences?
The span of
differences from one translation to another is partly
because the translators could be working from different
texts. For example, Monsignor Ronald Knox worked from the
Latin Vulgate. George Lamsa worked from the Aramaic text.
Which Translations?
King
James Version
The American Standard Version
The revised Standard Version
The New English Bible The New Testament of Our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ
The New Testament (Henry Alford)
The New Testament: An American Translation (Goodspeed)
The New Testament in the Translation of Monsignor Ronal
Knox
The New Testament According the Eastern Texts (Lamsa)
The new Testament: a New Translation (Moffet)
The Centenary Translation (Montgomery)
The New Testament: A New Translation (Norlie)
The New Testament in Modern English (Phillips)
The Book of Acts (Rieu)
The Four Gospels (Rieu)
The Emphasized New Testament (Rotherham)
Living letters: The Paraphrased Epistles; Living Gospels:
The Paraphrased Gospels; Living Prophecies: The Minor
Prophets Paraphrased (Taylor)
The Twentieth Century New Testament
The New Testament in Modern Speech (Weymouth)
The New Testament: A Translation in the Language of the
People (Williams)
The Amplified New Testament
The
Value
Much like the
Amplified Bible,
26 Translations opens up the
rich texture of scripture. The verse lights up and speaks
to your heart, almost like a friend who is intimately
communicating, delivering to you precious information.
26 Translations is my favorite to use for meditation when
I’m short of study time, when I don’t have time
to dig out nuggets to chew on. But, I often find some
nugget in
26 Translations that sends me
into a time of study.
These books represent a financial investment, but it only
needs to be paid once. My two volumes bear the marks of
over two decades of use, including the teeth marks of one
of our former cats that like to chew on Bibles. The cat is
long gone, but
26 Translations is still
serving valiantly.
More
Resources
Concordance
Strong's Concordance
for Word Meanings