What is the New English Bible (NEB)?
” New English Bible – History Published in 1970 by the Oxford University Press and the Cambridge University Press, the New English Bible (NEB) was a fresh translation of the Bible into modern English directly from the original Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic texts (with some Latin in the Apocrypha). In 1935, near the time when the copyright to the English Revised Version a late 19th-century British revision of the King James Version of 1611 was due to expire, the Oxford University Press and the Cambridge University Press, who held the ERV copyright, began investigations to determine whether a modern revision of the ERV text was necessary. In May of 1946, it was determined that a new translation should be undertaken in order to produce a Bible with thoroughly “modern English.” Work began soon thereafter, and the New Testament was published in 1961 with the whole Bible appearing in 1970. It was significantly revised and re-published in 1989 as the Revised English Bible. New English Bible – Tr
