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English translation of the Bible

New American Standard Bible

Abbreviation	NASB (exceptionally abbreviated equally NAS)
NT published	1963
Complete Bible published	1971
Derived from	American Standard Version
Textual footing	OT: Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia; Biblia Hebraica Quinta (for books available); additional sources^[1] NT: Novum Testamentum Graece (28th ed., 2012)^[two]
Translation type	Formal equivalence
Reading level	10.0
Version revision	1977, 1995, 2020
Publisher	The Lockman Foundation
Copyright	New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation A Corporation Non for Turn a profit La Habra, California All Rights Reserved www.lockman.org
Webpage	www.lockman.org/nasb-bible-info/
Genesis 1:1–3 In the beginning God created the heavens and the globe. And the earth was a formless and desolate emptiness, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. Then God said, "Let there be calorie-free"; and there was light.^[3] Genesis 1:one in other translations John iii:16 "For God and then loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, only have eternal life.^[three] John three:16 in other translations

The New American Standard Bible (NASB) is an English translation of the Bible. Published by the Lockman Foundation, the first NASB text—a translation of the Gospel of John—was released in 1960. The NASB New Testament was released in 1963. The complete NASB Bible was released in 1971.^[iv] The NASB is a revision of the American Standard Version (ASV).^[5]

The Lockman Foundation claims that the NASB "has been widely embraced every bit a literal and authentic English language translation considering it consistently uses the formal equivalence translation philosophy."^[six]

Translation philosophy [edit]

The New American Standard Bible is considered past some sources as the most literally translated of major 20th-century English Bible translations.^[7] According to the NASB'south preface, the translators had a "Fourfold Aim" in this piece of work:

These publications shall be truthful to the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.
They shall be grammatically correct.
They shall be understandable.
They shall give the Lord Jesus Christ His proper place, the place which the Word gives Him; therefore, no piece of work will ever be personalized.^[viii]

The NASB is an original translation from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts, based on the same principles of translation, and diction, as the American Standard Version (ASV) of 1901. It offers an alternative to the Revised Standard Version (1946–1952/1971), which is considered by some to exist theologically liberal,^[9] and also to the 1929 revision of the ASV.^[x]

The Hebrew text used for this translation was the third edition of Rudolf Kittel's Biblia Hebraica equally well as the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia was consulted for the 1995 revision. For Greek, Eberhard Nestle's Novum Testamentum Graece was used; the 23rd edition in the 1971 original,^[eleven] and the 26th in the 1995 revision.^[ten]

Seeing the need for a literal, mod translation of the English Bible, the translators sought to produce a contemporary English Bible while maintaining a word-for-word translation style. In cases where word-for-word literalness was adamant to be unacceptable for modernistic readers, changes were fabricated in the direction of more current idioms. In some such instances, the more literal renderings were indicated in footnotes.

The greatest strength of the NASB is its reliability and fidelity to the original languages. Additionally, the NASB includes printing of verses as individual units (although more contempo editions are available in paragraph format.)

YHWH [edit]

YHWH (rendered as "Jehovah" in the original ASV/A.Due south.Five.) is rendered LORD or GOD in capital letters in the NASB.^[eleven] The commission stated the reason as:

This proper noun has not been pronounced by the Jews because of reverence for the slap-up sacredness of the divine name. Therefore it has been consistently translated LORD. The just exception is when it occurs in immediate proximity to the word Lord, that is, Adonai. In that case it is regularly translated GOD in order to avoid defoliation. It is known that for many years YHWH has been transliterated equally Yahweh, however no complete certainty attaches to this pronunciation.^[12]

This is in straight contrast to the preface of ASV of 70 years before, where the committee explained that "the American Revisers...were brought to the unanimous conviction that a Jewish superstition, which regarded the Divine Proper name as as well sacred to exist uttered, ought no longer to dominate in the English language or any other version of the Onetime Attestation."^[13]

Revisions [edit]

The Lockman Foundation published NASB text, modifications, and revisions in the following society:

Gospel of John (1960)
The Gospels (1962)
New Testament (1963)
Psalms (1968)
Complete Bible (Old Testament and New Attestation; 1971)
Minor text modifications (1972, 1973, 1975)
Major text revisions (1977, 1995, 2020)
Legacy Standard Bible (2021)

1995 revision [edit]

In 1992, the Lockman Foundation commissioned a limited revision of the NASB. In 1995, the Lockman Foundation reissued the NASB text every bit the NASB Updated Edition (more than commonly, the Updated NASB or NASB95). Since then, it has become widely known as simply the "NASB", supplanting the 1977 text in current printings, save for a few (Thompson Chain Reference Bibles, Open up Bibles, Key Word Report Bibles, et al.).

In the updated NASB, consideration was given to the latest available manuscripts with an emphasis on determining the best Greek text. Primarily, the 26th edition of Nestle-Aland'south Novum Testamentum Graece is closely followed. The Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia is also employed together with the most recent light from lexicography, cognate languages, and the Dead Ocean Scrolls.^[14]

The updated NASB represents recommended revisions and refinements, and incorporates thorough research based on current English usage.^[15] Vocabulary, grammar, and judgement structure were meticulously revised for greater understanding and smoother reading, hence increasing clarity and readability.^[15] Terms found in Elizabethan English language such equally "thy" and "grand" have been modernized, while verses with difficult word ordering are restructured. Punctuation and paragraphing have been formatted for modernization, and verbs with multiple meanings have been updated to better account for their contextual usage.^[15]

2020 revision [edit]

Starting in 2018, the Lockman Foundation posted some passages from "NASB 2020", an update of the 1995 revision.^[16] ^{[ non-primary source needed ]} Central differences from the 1995 revision include an endeavor to meliorate "gender accuracy" (for example, calculation "or sisters" in italics to passages that reference "brothers", to aid convey the mixed-gender meaning of a passage that might otherwise be misunderstood as just speaking of men), a shift (where applicable) from the mutual construct "let us" when proposing action to the more-contemporary construct "allow's" (to disambiguate a sort of "imperative" encouragement rather than a seeking of permission that could otherwise exist misunderstood from a given passage), and a repositioning of some "bracketed text" (that is, verses or portions of verses that are not nowadays in earliest Biblical manuscripts, and thus printed in brackets in previous NASB editions) out from inline-and-in-brackets downwards instead to footnotes.^[17]

Translators [edit]

The translation work was done past a group sponsored by the Lockman Foundation.^[eighteen] Co-ordinate to the Lockman Foundation, the commission consisted of people from Christian institutions of higher learning and from evangelical Protestant, predominantly conservative, denominations (Presbyterian, Methodist, Southern Baptist, Church building of Christ, Nazarene, American Baptist, Fundamentalist, Conservative Baptist, Free Methodist, Congregational, Disciples of Christ, Evangelical Free, Independent Baptist, Independent Mennonite, Associates of God, Due north American Baptist, and "other religious groups").^[19] ^[20]

The foundation's Web site indicates that amongst the translators and consultants who contributed are Bible scholars with doctorates in biblical languages, theology, "or other advanced degrees", and come from a multifariousness of denominational backgrounds. More than 20 individuals worked on modernizing the NASB in accord with the most recent inquiry.^[20]

References [edit]

^ "More Information about NASB 2020". The Lockman Foundation. Archived from the original on January 10, 2021. Retrieved Jan 10, 2021. For the Old Testament: Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) and Biblia Hebraica Quinta (BHQ) for the books bachelor. As well the LXX, DSS, the Targums, and other aboriginal versions when pertinent.
^ "More Information about NASB 2020". The Lockman Foundation. Archived from the original on January 10, 2021. Retrieved January ten, 2021. For the New Attestation: NA28 supplemented past the new textual criticism system that uses all the available Gr mss. known as the ECM2.
^ ^a ^b Scripture quotations taken from the (NASB®) New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. world wide web.lockman.org
^ "NASB Bible Info". Lockman Foundation. Archived from the original on Jan 15, 2021. Retrieved January 15, 2021. Later on completion in 1971, the NASB was updated in 1977, 1995, and about recently in 2020, according to the best scholarship available at the time.
^ "NASB Bible Info". Lockman Foundation. Archived from the original on Jan 15, 2021. Retrieved Jan xv, 2021. Recognizing the values of the American Standard Version, The Lockman Foundation launched a new translation projection in 1959. Information technology sought to preserve the lasting values of the ASV while incorporating contempo discoveries of Hebrew and Greek textual sources, all with more electric current English. This new and original translation projection created the NASB.
^ "NASB Bible Info". Lockman Foundation. Archived from the original on Jan 15, 2021. Retrieved January 16, 2021.
^ Pope, Christopher. "Comparison Bible Translations: Conclusions" (PDF) . Retrieved May 21, 2013.
^ "The Lockman Foundation - NASB, Amplified, LBLA, and NBLH Bibles". Lockman.org. Retrieved Feb 16, 2012.
^ Harris, R. Laird (1969). "Inspiration and Canonicity of the Bible: An Historical and Exegetical Study". Contemporary Evangelical Perspectives (2nd ed.). Grand Rapids: Zondervan. p. 58.
^ ^a ^b "NASB Translation Principles". lockman.org . Retrieved Dec ii, 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Preface". Retrieved August 9, 2010.
^ Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible (NASB 1977 ed.). April 21, 2011. ISBN9781581351521 . Retrieved February 16, 2012.
^ "Preface to the American edition". Retrieved August ix, 2010.
^ "Why the NASB?". The Lockman Foundation. Retrieved June 16, 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c "New American Standard Bible". The Lockman Foundation. Retrieved June xvi, 2009.
^ "The Lockman Foundation (NASB, Amplified, LBLA, NBLH)". www.facebook.com . Retrieved June 27, 2019.
^ "More Data About NASB 2020". lockman.org . Retrieved February 17, 2021.
^ Metzger, Bruce (2003). The New Testament: Its Background, Growth, and Content (3rd ed.). Nashville: Abingdon Press. p. 336.
^ BeDuhn, Jason David (2003). Truth in Translation -- Accurateness and Bias in English Translations of the New Testament. Academy Press of America. p. 35,39. ISBN978-0761825562.
^ ^a ^b "The Lockman Foundation - NASB, Amplified Bible, LBLA, and NBLH Bibles". The Lockman Foundation.