The Bible Translator: Volume 12, Issue 3

By request of the Editor of The Bible Translator, the writer discusses in some detail the basic principles and procedures employed in the development of the recently published Reina-Valera Revision of 1960. Readers may remember a previous article on this revision, (Vol. 2, No.2, pp. 88-90, 1951), written by Mr. John H. Twentyman, who represented the British and Foreign Bible Society in this program. For those especially interested, there is available on request a brochure in Spanish telling not only the story of the history of the Spanish Bible, but giving a good deal of specific information as to types of revisions made in this recently published text. View Less

The following questions and answers have been selected from the files of the British and Foreign Bible Society and of the Netherlands Bible Society. In the former case the answers have mostly been provided by Rev. H. K. Moulton of the Translations Department, and in the latter case by the Translators' Advice Committee which consists of Old Testament scholars. In order to present this material in the most useful form we have freely adapted the wording, and refer to versions not mentioned in the original questions if these illustrate the point better for English-speaking readers. Where the verse numbering in the English Bible differs from that in the Hebrew, the latter follows in brackets. View Less