Bible Versions

New English Bible  (NEB)
Date: 1970
Creators: Joint Committee of British churches; C. H. Dodd, general director
Translation- Language: English, Type: Dynamic Equivalence
Source Texts: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek critical texts

A fresh British translation using contemporary literary English rather than revising the KJV tradition.

Popularity: Historical ( Mostly superseded by the Revised English Bible.)
Denominational Context: British ecumenical
Copyright Status: Copyrighted
Publisher: Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press
Significance: It was a landmark ecumenical translation and one of the first major entirely new twentieth-century English Bibles.