Modern Speech Versions of the Bible: The Living Bible

We have already examined the following speech versions: Weymouth’s New Testament, The Moffatt Bible, The (Montgomery) New Testament in Modem English, the ASV and the RSV. These all leave much to be desired. Nor is the RSV, as it ought to be, such a great improvement over the ASV. In the interest of a good, sound, trustworthy modern speech version of the Bible, one is not necessarily likely to be produced simply by the head of the family taking up the Bible at the table and explaining the...