

The project was formally started after a meeting in 1965 at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, Illinois, of the Christian Reformed Church, National Association of Evangelicals, and a group of international scholars. The initial "Committee on Bible Translation" consisted of E. Leslie Carlson, Edmund Clowney, Ralph Earle, Jr., Burton L. Pfeiffer, Charles Caldwell Ryrie, Francis R. The New Testament was released in 1973 and the full Bible in 1978. The core translation group consisted of fifteen Biblical scholars using Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts whose goal was to produce a more modern English language text than the King James Version. The translation took ten years and involved a team of over 100 scholars from the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. The range of those participating included many different denominations such as Anglicans, Assemblies of God, Baptist, Christian Reformed, Lutheran and Presbyterian. The NIV is a balance between word-for-word and thought-for-thought or literal and phrase by phrase translations. Reading the Aramaic Plain English Bible will give you the pronunciation of names of people and places as they are used in everyday speech in the land of Israel by the Jews. Names like Jesus is Yeshua, John is Yohannan, Christ is Messiah, Mary is Maryam, Joseph is Yoseph etc. The names and places in the Bible are written with the phonetics of the modern Aramaic language spoken in present day Israel and in the days of Jesus Christ. In the sense that this Version of the Holy Bible deals with the transliteration of the original Aramaic, a dialect of the Hebrew language spoken in the days of Jesus ( Yeshua ) and present day Israel. Aramaic Plain English Bible currently has 99 reviews with average vote value 4.1 searching for the originality of scriptures in retrospect to the Jewish people, Israel and their native language.

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