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...NEB (a necessary abbreviation that the Times Literary Supplement finds "horrid" because it smacks of Lenin's New Economic Policy), for all its faults, certainly is not. The format and typography announce a complete break with the past. The text is set in prose paragraphs, with chapter and verse numbers, those arbitrary designations placed parenthetically in the margins. The type face, mirabile dictu, is both handsome and legible--a feat unmatched in bibles since the first edition of Johannes Guttenberg...
...translation, the NEB is both sound and helpful. The various mistranslations of the King James Version have been tidled up. "No more do you put new wine into old wine-skins; if you do, the skins burst, and then the wine runs out and the skins are spoilt," makes a good deal more sense than the traditional reading...
...also the NEB on the first chapter of St. John...
Despite its abuse, this conscious break with the past must stand as the NEB's most conspicuous excellence; it gives the new translation an undeniable modernity and immediacy; and this, of course, has been one of the chief aims of the churchmen who prepared it. In 1951, Dr. C. H. Dodd, General Director of the whole project, as well as convener of the panel of New Testament translators, promised that the New English Bible "is to be genuinely English in idiom, such as will not awaken a sense of strangeness or remoteness." In the same manner, the Introduction, published with...
...NEB's rendering the Lord's Prayer, which prefaces this review, is the most conspicuous example of the poetry of the new version. In the main, it parallels the Authorized translation--and in doing this, it seems at first reading successful. But the suppleness and delicate ballance of the King James lines has been brutally destroyed...