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In the beginning, the American Bible Society decided to develop Scripture for kids. Translators spent hours on end watching Sesame Street and TV cartoons, puzzling out ways to make the Bible understandable for youngsters ages 5 to 13 -- the Bart Simpson generation. But when versions were tested in local churches...
Lo, that revelation led to the ultimate in simplified Holy Writ, the Bible for Today's Family. The Bible society has just published the New Testament portion, with the Old Testament due by 1996. The new Bible is the work of three translators living in Springfield, Mo., plus dozens of...
A generation ago, the Bible society produced another simplified version, the Good News Bible (113 million Bibles and Testaments in print); the 1991 Bible is even less highbrow. In Today's Family Bible, for example, angels proclaim Jesus' birth by saying, "Praise God in heaven! Peace on earth to everyone...
The new Bible banishes words, like whom, that are dying out in everyday American speech, as well as theological favorites, like righteousness. Even grace, the term that launched Luther's Reformation, has been replaced with the bland "kindness." The graceless Bible is also as genderless as possible. For all that...
THIS IS NOT what Harry Elkins Widener's mother had in mind. Since they're removing books that haven't been checked out in five years, won't they eventually haul away the volumes of Harry's book collection that haven't been touched for 50? Will his Guttenberg Bible...