Comments on: The Expanded Bible New Testament

By: Paul C

Paul C — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:27:09 +0000

The PDF & the Free Online version Links don’t work.

By: E.K.

E.K. — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:28:49 +0000

I get the distinct impression that none of you are very impressed with this NT. I was hoping to find more comments.

sdonahue,
Why so down on the NCV?

By: EricW

EricW — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:06:44 +0000

FYI, in response to my query/comment re: whether or not they would do a similar expanded translation of the Old Testament, Wayne Hastings of Thomas Nelson confirmed that the OT of The Expanded Bible should be published in about 2 years, so we’ll then have a complete Bible.

By: CD-Host

CD-Host — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:09:41 +0000

Thanks. I’m getting very close to doing a study of bibles on 10 tough verses in the NT. I’ll make sure to include it.

By: EricW

EricW — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:40:25 +0000

CD-Host: It looks identical to the PDFs. I actually find that reading it in book form is not as cumbersome or laborious as I thought it would be from reading the PDFs. One can easily learn to stick with reading just the bold-faced type (i.e., the NCV text) while ignoring the inserted bracketed [ ]comments, only stopping to read them where one wants to. If one can trust the NCV translation as supplemented by the L (Literal) comments and alternate (or) translations to be faithful renderings of the Greek, I think this could be a useful study Bible (NT only so far) for those who do not know NT Greek. Assuming I don't find any glaring problems, I'll likely be recommending it to people. It should be in stores very soon so you can see it "in the flesh."

By: CD-Host

CD-Host — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:01:30 +0000

Eric –

Anything in the hardback not noticeable in the PDF?

By: EricW

EricW — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:49:15 +0000

Got my free copy in the mail the other day as one of the first 200 who posted about it on my blog and offered a review of sorts. It’s the hardback edition, too, despite the fact that the offer as stated was for a free paperback edition.

By: sdonahue

sdonahue — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:46:16 +0000

New Century Version? I am no longer interested.

By: Ken Berry

Ken Berry — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:01:09 +0000

It is a modified version of the New Century Version, as they state in the introduction.

By: codepoke

codepoke — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:49:59 +0000

I don’t think this should be compared to the Amped bible. The PDF looks like a usable, readable quick reference into the things I usually use a web resource to do. I’m impressed.

Of course, it doesn’t bother to include the Majority Text rendering in any notes on the verse I checked, but that’s not a surprise.